Lead QA Engineer, Exostellar
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Cloud resource optimization & management platform
Open for applications
Cloud resource optimization & management platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
Exostellar's mission is to develop a future of affordable cloud computing technology that empowers enterprises to command a finer level of control over their cloud resources.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor or more advanced degree in Computer Science or related programs
- 5+ years software engineering experience, preferably using Python, Go and/or C/C++
- Extensive experience in test framework/suite design and test automation development, covering both frontend and backend in cloud environments
- Hands-on experience with Docker is a must. Experience with DevOps, CI/CD automation, and Kubernetes is a plus
- Experience designing and developing tools and tests for complex customer use cases
- Experience with cloud computing services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud etc.)
- Detail-oriented and dedicated to elegant and high quality software
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; able to explain complex technical topics to both internal and external stakeholders with ease and in remote/distributed environments
- Comfortable working remotely if not working from our offices in Ithaca, NY, or Santa Clara, CA
What the job involves
- Play a critical role in building out our next-generation cloud-native resource optimization platform, working on technology that brings on-premise control back to cloud users
- Design and implement automated test frameworks for Golang and C applications - these frameworks will cover the entirety of the stack, from low-level virtualization to user interface testing in a distributed environment
- Maintain and contribute to our software's test suites to extend coverage at all levels including, component integration tests, system integration tests, performance tests, regression tests, and acceptance tests
- Design and implement tools to build, maintain and operate test automation frameworks with the goal to simplify test development, performance testing, fast feedback, etc
- Build test infrastructure to fit into and extend our existing CI/CD process (GitHub Actions)
- Work closely with other developers to ensure proper test planning and execution is incorporated as early as possible in our release cycles
- Experience identifying performance bottlenecks, spotting anomalous system behavior, and determining the root cause of issues
- Identify, share, and nurture the adoption of best practices in code health, testing, testability, and maintainability in collaboration with the wider development team
- Effectively communicate insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management
- Understand existing code flow and its integration with various components and interfaces
Our take
Exostellar was co-founded by a trio of computer scientists out of Cornell University who identified that, as enterprises migrate to the cloud, they also create great operational inefficiencies which lead to overspending.
In response, the company offers a platform which leverages patented software and AI and Machine Learning to enable enterprises to increase the amount of computing they can use, while optimizing operational security and computing performance, in turn reducing their costs by as much as 90%.
Considering that co-founder Hakim Weatherspoon’s research has seen him credited as a leader in cloud storage foundation, as well as the fact that its Cornell-developed tech is patent-protected, Exostellar has been quick to gain respect since launching in 2019.
VC funding has also been forthcoming for the startup, which is being used to ramp up its brand awareness efforts and gain more high-profile customers, especially crucial in the wake of its renaming from Exotanium to Exostellar in March 2023.
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back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2023
$15m
SERIES A
Nov 2022
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $33.7m
Company benefits
- Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
- 401K with match
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Long Term and Short Term Disability & Life Insurance
Company HQ
Ithaca, Ithaca, NY
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Leadership
Hakim Weatherspoon
(Co-CEO)Computer Science Professor at Cornell University. Received their Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and is credited for cloud storage foundation for a paper published in 2000.
Zhiming Shen
(CTO)Received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2017, focusing on improving security, flexibility, and efficiency of cloud infrastructures.
Robbert van Renesse
(Chief Scientist)Has spent over 30 years at Cornell University, now a Computer Science Professor. Has worked as a technical advisor for Microsoft & Amazon, and is also the owner of 12 patents.
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