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This is a senior, deeply hands-on role for a technology leader who can own the technical roadmap, mentor a team of elite engineers, and build the infrastructure that challenges WEKA's platform to its theoretical limits.\nWhat You'll Lead\nDefine and own the technical architecture of the group's distributed testing and reliability platform - designing for massive scale, real-world workload simulation, and adversarial failure injection\nLead effort involving multiple engineers, setting technical standards, running architecture reviews, driving design decisions, and mentoring engineers to grow\n Build the systems that orchestrate millions of concurrent IO operations, inject chaos at the infrastructure layer (latency, packet loss, hardware failures), and expose the hardest-to-find race conditions and consistency bugs\nAdvance AI-driven approaches to test automation: intelligent scenario generation, LLM-augmented root-cause analysis, and autonomous validation pipelines\nDrive observability and reliability engineering across the group - building telemetry pipelines that track P99 latency, jitter, and system health, turning quality into a quantitative discipline\nCollaborate deeply with Core R&D, Storage Kernel, and Infrastructure teams - translating architectural knowledge into targeted reliability strategies\nEstablish engineering practices - design docs, production-grade code reviews, testing philosophy, and cross-team technical alignment\nWhat You Bring\nSoftware engineering background with 4+ years of hands-on Python development experience is required. 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