Senior Software Engineer, Automation; Tech Lead — Veza

Job Description

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Automation Engineering Tech Lead to own and elevate Veza's test engineering practice. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of engineering excellence and product quality, you will set the automation strategy, build and scale the tooling and frameworks that underpin Veza's CI/CD pipeline, and embed a culture of quality across every engineering team.

This is not a QA role. This is a senior engineering leadership position for someone who thinks deeply about software quality as a systems problem, uses AI to accelerate and enhance testing, and has the technical credibility to influence how Veza's entire engineering organization builds and ships software.

You will operate with startup-level ownership and velocity, backed by the scale and resources of Service Now.

• Own Veza's automation and test engineering roadmap – defining strategy, standards, and best practices across the engineering organization.
• Evaluate and bring in best‑of‑breed tools and frameworks, staying ahead of emerging trends in test automation, AI‑assisted testing, and quality engineering.
• Define and track quality and pipeline metrics – test coverage, flakiness rates, build reliability, and release velocity – and use data to drive continuous improvement.
• Mentor engineers across teams, building automation literacy and promoting a strong quality culture organization‑wide.

• Design, build, and scale test automation frameworks spanning API, UI, integration, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Leverage AI/ML tools to accelerate test generation, improve coverage, detect anomalies, and reduce manual testing overhead.
• Own and improve Veza's CI/CD pipeline – driving automation at every stage from code commit to production release.
• Lead root cause analysis on test failures and production issues, building automated solutions that prevent recurrence.
• Partner with engineering teams to embed automation natively into development workflows – shifting quality left rather than bolting it on at the end.
• Be very comfortable defining strategy as well as writing code and know when to do each.

• Define and continuously improve Veza's release process – reducing friction, increasing confidence, and enabling teams to ship faster with fewer manual gates.
• Establish pipeline health metrics and SLAs, ensuring CI/CD infrastructure is reliable, observable, and scalable as the platform grows.

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on test automation, quality engineering, or developer tooling.
• Proven track record defining and executing automation strategy across a multi‑team engineering organization.
• Strong proficiency in Go or Python – comfortable writing production‑quality automation code, not just scripts.
• Deep experience building and scaling test automation frameworks across API, UI, and integration layers.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD systems – Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Circle
  
  CI, or equivalent.
• Experience with AWS and cloud‑native infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and microservices – able to reason about failure modes and test strategies at system scale.
• Experience using AI/ML tools to enhance test automation – including test generation, anomaly detection, or intelligent test selection.

• Demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy and influence engineering culture without direct management authority.
• Strong communication skills – able to translate quality metrics into narratives that resonate with engineering leadership.
• Experience mentoring engineers and building automation capability across teams.

• Experience with large‑scale SaaS platforms and the unique quality challenges they present.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud‑native environments.
• Experience with performance, load, or security testing automation.
• Exposure to identity, access management, or security systems.
• Experience evaluating or rolling out AI‑powered testing tools.

For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $190,900 - $334,100
, plus equity (when…