Principal SDET

Altana is the world’s first Value Chain Management System, a collaborative, public-private network that enables customers to take command of their extended supplier and distribution networks from raw material origins to the sale of finished products. By applying artificial intelligence to the world’s largest body of supply chain data, Altana reveals these previously opaque global networks and powers workflows across them. Customers like Boston Scientific, L.L.Bean, Maersk, US Customs and Border Protection, and the UK Department of Business and Trade use Altana to build secure, resilient, efficient, and sustainable global value chains.

We have built a fundamental understanding of how the world’s economy works, and the implications for global resiliency, sustainability and opportunity are enormous. Backed by leading investors and used by the world’s most important organizations, Altana’s mission is to power a new era of globalization organized around trusted value chain networks.

This is a lofty mission, and our success depends on building a diverse, global team and creating an environment in which they can thrive. We operate in accordance with our values: we embrace reality as we work to change it; we focus on value creation, not capture; we foster diversity and embrace difference; and, we go on offense. When you join Altana, you’ll be joining a vibrant, collaborative team working together to solve complex problems with the potential for global societal impact.  

The Opportunity at Altana

The Engineering team is responsible for building out the platforms, API’s, services, workflows, and user experiences for bringing this vision to life.  As principal SDET, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and reliability across our product surface area.  You will work closely with Software and ML Engineers, Data Scientists and Product managers to design, implement and drive the adoption of testing tools and methodologies that ensure a high bar of quality for all our software offerings.

Your Responsibilities 

• Ingest product and architectural requirements, and design robust test automation frameworks and tools that ensure continuous quality of delivered engineering solutions.
• Personally develop testing tools and frameworks, and integrate them into our build and deployment pipelines.
• Work hand-in-hand with Engineering, ML and SRE leads to ensure that testing is incorporated into every step of the software and ML development lifecycle.
• Define testing patterns and best practices to accomplish the above, and drive their adoption among engineering teams.
• Work with Altana’s subject matter experts to understand their current quality validation workflows, and develop tools to automate or streamline these workflows.
• Broaden the breadth and depth of our test coverage, particularly in the areas of Performance, Security, and end-to-end testing.
• Mentor engineers of all skill levels in developing and maintaining automated tests.

About You

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of real-world professional experience in quality assurance and test automation
• Extensive experience with test automation frameworks such as JUnit, pytest, etc.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD build systems (Gitlab, Azure Dev Ops, etc.)
• Self-starter with demonstrated experience working on large, complex problems
• You care deeply about engineering excellence and hold a high bar on quality
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have, but not required

• Experience with Python Machine Learning toolsets (Numpy, Pandas, Dedupe)
• Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with frontend test automation frameworks like Selenium or Shipwright

 Technologies we love to use at Altana

• Languages: Python, PySpark
• Tools: Docker, Git, Kubernetes, Swagger/OpenAPI, AWS/Azure, MLFlow, Celery, FastAPI.
• Datastores: Postgres, Databricks and Delta Lakes

This role is remote, based in the United States or United Kingdom, with the option to work from one of our hubs in New York City, Boston, Washington D.C, or London.

Why it’s great to work at Altana

• We love to collaborate, and we win as a team!
• We are committed to engineering excellence
• We value personal and professional development
• We learn from diverse backgrounds and perspectives
• We impact the world, from enabling developing countries to identifying drug traffickers

At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.