Android Platform Engineer (Virtualization)

About Us:

At Sauce Labs, we empower the world's top enterprises - like Walmart, Bank of America, and Indeed - to deliver quality web and mobile applications at speed. Our industry-leading platform ensures continuous quality across the SDLC, using AI-powered analytics to identify key quality signals from development through production. With our unified solution, teams can release and innovate with confidence, knowing their apps will always look, function, and perform exactly as they should. Backed by TPG and Riverwood Capital, we are shaping the future of digital confidence - join us!

The Role:

The Virtual Android team is a new core team in our Virtual Device Infrastructure product line. It is responsible for ensuring that our infrastructure can scale to the ever increasing customer demand, automating operations and leading innovation through research and development around emulation and virtualization.

As a core team member, your role will evolve around system design, development, product maturity, and scalability. This dynamic, nascent space means varied daily tasks, from debugging and coding to automating system image production, offering significant learning. You'll also collaborate with Product on features, roadmap planning, and cross-functional teams.

As a System automation engineer you will:

• Optimize our Android Emulator release pipeline.
• Help improve the infrastructure stability and reliability.
• Optimize resource allocation around Android emulators.
• Implement testing scripts and monitor critical product metrics for regressions.
• Resolve production issues swiftly.
• Own backend services and help modernizing them.
• Automate manual tasks and help the team accelerate.

Responsibilities:

• Solve infrastructure scalability issues
• Optimize our X86 Android emulator offering
• Design and implement a cost effective ARM Android emulator solution
• Automate our AVD release cycle while improving confidence through testing
• Apply monitoring tools and methodologies for high observability standards to reduce MTTR.
• Expose and maintain metrics to ensure data driven decision making.
• Own the solution end to end, from planning, designing, testing, implementing to monitoring.

Required Skills:

• 5-7 years of Software Development experience
• Expertise in KVM, QEMU or other virtualization platforms
• Kubernetes, docker and LXC experience
• Experience with the Android OS and tools (adb, AOSP, build-tools, )
• Experience with Android emulators (Goldfish, Cuttlefish)
• Experience coding in Python or any other scripting language
• SysAdmin experience, analyzing system-wide functional and performance regressions, tracing and profiling applications

Additional Skills:

• Experience setting up CI systems (Jenkins, TravisCI, CircleCI, etc)
• Being comfortable with Android app development
• Familiarity with OS and file system-level tools; profilers (perf, pprof), debuggers (gdb, lldb), tracers (ptrace, linux bpf, dtrace) and build tools (repo, make, gradle)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCE or Azure)
• Skills in automating build processes and system provisioning using Bash, Ansible, Terraform, Packer or similar technologies

This position is required to be in office 5 days per week.

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