Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, Sonos
System Foundation
$88-139.7k
+ Equity
Wireless audio experience company
Job no longer available
Wireless audio experience company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$88-139.7k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide music lovers with the tools to enjoy their favourite sounds anywhere, any time.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated experience programming in Python
- Ability to read and understand firmware code written in C/C++
- Experience with Linux as a development platform
- Working knowledge of modern source code control tools and CI/CD frameworks
- Must be able to translate product/feature requirements and code changes into test cases
- Inquisitiveness in understanding how components and technologies operate to their core
Desirable
- Experience working with embedded systems
- Experience designing and developing test automation with Pytest
- Experience using data to substantiate design decisions
What the job involves
- As a Software Development Engineer in Test on the System Foundation team, you will bring your perspective and influence the way we think about high quality
- You’ll apply your creativity and engineering skills to help shape our system architectural vision which serves as the foundation for which our experiences are built on
- Influence quality early in the software development process by driving the testing needed to evaluate software readiness across our family of products and technologies
- Inspire confidence in code merges by developing effective test strategies from requirements documents, user stories, and source code changes
- Engineer new automation and tools to support software development and quality initiatives
- Optimize existing automation to improve stability and performance metrics
- Perform peer code reviews to assure code quality and test coverage
- Collaborate with SDEs to root-cause issues discovered in testing
- Add new forms of telemetry to monitor system health and validate development decisions
- Act on ideas and bring visibility to your work via various technical forums (demos, tech-talks, hack-weeks)
- Additional technologies we use across our teams:
- Audio codecs - AAC, MP3, OGG, WAV
- Multichannel audio home theater formats - Dolby, Dolby ATMOS, DTS
- Wireless connectivity protocols for embedded systems - WiFi, Bluetooth
- Network infrastructure - network protocols, switches, routers, VLANs
- Code quality tools - SonarQube, Sentry.IO, Valgrind
- Build system tools - Yocto, Meson, Cmake
- Data tools - Tableau, Datadog
- Platform as a service tools - Kubernetes, Docker containerization
- AWS cloud services
Our take
Sonos is a highly reputed global manufacturer of top tier speakers. Since being founded in 2002 it has become a market leading audio product brand, partnering with over 100 music service companies and putting products in nearly 11 million households worldwide.
Sonos' strong brand reputation has seen it carve out space in a competitive market alongside giants like Amazon and Alphabet, who are similarly targeting the connected audio home market. Sonos have perhaps been smart in keeping their product selection relatively modest, focusing instead on strategic partnerships that embed their products across different markets. They are, for example, partnered with Audi to provide their first in-car sound system.
As companies began adopting remote and hybrid work, Sonos benefitted from a period of increased consumer focus on refitting the leisure and work facilities of their homes. This includes speakers and smart speakers, which account for the vast majority of Sonos revenue. This trend is only set to continue, with the global home audio market expected to exceed $70 billion by 2030. As a market leader, Sonos is in good stead to continue its sustained growth.
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Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2013
$25m
LATE VC
Jun 2012
$135m
SERIES F
Total funding: $227m
Company HQ
Lower State, Santa Barbara, CA
Leadership
Tom Conrad
(CEO)Tom has been part of Sonos since 2017, becoming CEO in 2025. Previously, he was the CEO of Zero Longevity Science and the CPO of Quibi.
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