As a Staff SDET at Sirona, you would define and drive our test automation vision company-wide. This is a technical leadership role for a hands-on engineer who can set quality strategy, architect complex test systems, and influence the broader engineering culture to achieve continuous quality at scale.
This role is remote, with the first week of employment including onsite onboarding in our San Francisco office.
Why Join Us?
- Make a Real Impact: Your work will directly affect patient outcomes and improve clinical workflows for healthcare providers.
- Work with Cutting-Edge AI: You'll be at the forefront of applying AI innovations in a high-stakes domain.
- Collaborate with Top Talent: Join a passionate, multidisciplinary team of AI experts, engineers, and clinicians.
- Opportunity to Grow: We're a startup—there's room for you to grow and lead as we continue to scale
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and own the organization’s end-to-end test automation strategy and technical roadmap
- Architect enterprise-grade test frameworks for distributed systems, data pipelines, and API services
- Partner with engineering leadership to embed quality principles into product design and architecture
- Lead technical design reviews and drive adoption of testability patterns across teams
- Establish metrics and dashboards for measuring test effectiveness, coverage, and release readiness
- Mentor and grow engineers across teams to build a quality-first mindset
- Lead cross-functional quality initiatives — improving observability, reliability, and automation efficiency
- Stay ahead of industry trends and ensure our tooling and practices remain state-of-the-art
Key Requirements:
- 10+ years of software engineering or SDET experience, with demonstrated technical leadership
- Expertise in Python and strong experience with distributed systems testing, with a deep understanding of application architectures built on frameworks such as React and Django
- Proven track record designing and scaling automation frameworks across multiple product teams
- Deep experience with CI/CD, deployment pipelines, and test orchestration in complex environments
- Excellent cross-functional communication; ability to influence at the organizational level
- Demonstrated success in driving measurable quality improvements across multiple teams
Nice to Have:
- Extensive experience with regulated healthcare enviornments (HIPAA, FDA, ISO 13485, or similar)
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and observability (AWS, Kubernetes, Datadog, etc.)
- History of thought leadership — conference talks, publications, or open-source contributions
Benefits:
- Stock Options
- Unlimited PTO
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Maternity and Paternity Leave
- 401K matching
- Apple equipment
- Sponsorship for conferences, continuing education, etc
- Dynamic engineering role–technological innovation is at the core of our business
- Growth and learning opportunities from a startup environment include working closely with an international team of scientists, engineers, platform architects, programmers and professionals
- Do something morally benevolent!
The annual US base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 - $150,000 + equity + benefits. Pay scale is flexible depending on experience. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, competencies, experience, relevant education and training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
