Devops Test Engineer

POSITION LOCATION: San Carlos, CA, Austin, TX, or Remote USA

At Natera we work every day to revolutionize the standard of care with next-generation, cell-free DNA testing. We are looking to hire a talented DevOps Test Engineer who thrives on solving complex problems in a collaborative environment. If you exhibit a strong sense of ownership; if you have demonstrated the ability to implement solutions, adjusting to constraints while mitigating risks; if you balance great technical depth with strong interpersonal skills and emphasize communication in your day-to-day work; if you are interested in applying your skills in a challenging & dynamic environment - we’d love to talk to you.

As a DevOps Test Engineer you will help us streamline our system testing, CI/CD and software delivery processes. Your responsibilities will range from creating and maintaining system test environments all the way to automating the system tests and improving our test framework.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implement, maintain & improve automated tests (REST APIs, Kafka, UI, DB, etc.)

• Maintain & enhance existing automated test tools & frameworks

• Design, implement & support tools & functionality to support test environment/infrastructure

  • creation

  • monitoring & alerting (SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs)

  • debugging & trouble-shooting

• Participate in operations efforts and be the point person for test environment/infrastructure health

• Implement & maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to manage AWS resources.

• Develop, maintain, optimize and run CI/CD pipelines & test frameworks using GitLab for seamless Deployment AND ensuring robust test coverage and integration with test suites.

• Write comprehensive unit tests to maintain high-quality code standards.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define the best test automation strategies

• Conduct load testing to validate system capacity and optimize performance.

• Experience with monitoring tools (e.g. Datadog, NewRelic, Sumologic) 

• Experience programming in Java

• Proficiency in other programming or scripting languages (e.g. Python or Bash)

• Expertise with test automation implementation and test framework design using CI/CD pipelines like Gitlab

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform).

• Experience in working with cloud infrastructure (AWS)

• Experience with Kafka (and event-driven architecture tools)

• Experience working with relational databases, strong practical knowledge of SQL 

• Understanding of scrum, agile, and kanban methodologies

• Nice to have:

• Experience with Atlassian applications

• Experience with AWS Blueprint or similar tools

• Certifications from AWS, CTF, CKA, and DCA are extra bonus!

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

Duties may require working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends) at times.

OUR OPPORTUNITY

Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. 

Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/

Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @natera.com email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes.

For more information:
- BBB announcement on job scams 
- FBI Cyber Crime resource page