Software Engineer

About the Opportunity

Empathy Talent is searching for a Software Engineer to join a top Enterprise within the Cloud Computing sector. In this role, you will design, build, and operate the test infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling that power one of the largest distributed database systems in the world.

The Role

Operating within one of the industry's largest distributed database environments, you will join the Test Infrastructure team to build foundational frameworks, tooling, and automated systems. You will take end-to-end ownership of critical features, enhance engineering velocity across teams, and establish next-generation testing capabilities.

Position & Logistics Setup

This is a Permanent position based in Seattle, Washington, United States .

Key Responsibilities

• Test Infrastructure & Frameworks: Design, build, and operate the test infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling that power database testing.
• Autonomous AI Testing Systems: Build test infrastructure that AI agents can use on their own, with clusters ready on demand and results, logs, and metrics an agent can act on.
• Developer Velocity & Reliability: Treat internal engineers as your customers by reducing how long they wait for test results and how often their tests fail because of infrastructure.
• End-to-End Feature Ownership: Own features end to end, from design through deployment and operation, and deliver ambiguous projects with minimal guidance.
• System Debugging: Debug failures across services and fix root causes in the system.

Experience & Skills Required

• Professional Software Development: 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• System Design & Architecture: 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• SDE Experience: 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• Large-Scale Systems & Languages: 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience.
• Object-Oriented Design: 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Core Programming: Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• Full SDLC: 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• Education: Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field (or Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent).

Soft Skills & Ways of Working

• Customer-Centric Focus: Treating internal engineers as customers by prioritizing their workflows, test efficiency, and operational stability.
• Autonomy & Ambiguity: Proven capability to deliver ambiguous projects with minimal guidance and drive end-to-end accountability across service lifecycles.

Why Join This Project?

• Global Distributed Scale: Build the operational test foundation underpinning one of the largest distributed database platforms globally.
• End-to-End Technical Ownership: Direct autonomy across the complete feature lifecycle, from initial architectural design through deployment and system operations.
• AI-Agent Infrastructure Enablement: Pioneer modern test infrastructure designed for autonomous operation by AI agents, featuring on-demand cluster management and telemetry actionability.