Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

tigera· Engineering
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📍 Vancouver

About this role

Tigera provides Calico, a unified network security and observability platform to prevent, detect and mitigate security breaches in Kubernetes clusters. Tigera’s open-source offering, Calico Open Source, is the most widely adopted container networking and security solution. 

Powering more than 100M containers across 8M+ nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including Discover, Chipotle, NBCUniversal, HanseMerkur, Box, Siemens Healthineers, Playtech, Royal Bank of Canada, and Bell Canada.

As our team grows, we are looking for colleagues who not only share our passion for this work and growing our company, but who will also strengthen our company values and help ensure that Tigera remains a great place to work. At our core, our focus is on our customers, who are the heroes of our story; on aiming high and staying nimble in how we get there; on continuous learning to drive our success; and on respecting, collaborating, and supporting each other on a daily basis. 

If you are looking to help make a substantial impact, and our values and products align with your vision of your career growth, we want to hear from you!

Role Description

You will be joining our Delivery Engineering team. You will work closely with the other software developers to deliver products on time and to quality while managing and communicating risks. To do this, you will design and implement new automated test frameworks (integration / system level testing rather than unit level tests), manage projects and test plans, write test tools, and have a passion for finding bugs through exploratory test methods and spotting the edge cases the developers have missed!

This role is hybrid based in Vancouver

Salary range: CA$120,000 to CA$145,000 + stock options

REQUIREMENTS

5+ years of industry experience in software development, quality engineering and/or DevOps.

Experience should include:

  • Container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (highly desired).
  • A breadth of programming languages, SDKs and test frameworks - Go (Golang) or Python experience is highly desirable.
  • Defining and implementing end-to-end CI pipelines, automated test frameworks, and automated tests.
  • Shell scripting, GNU makefiles, and Linux sysadmin / networking.
  • Project management and team leadership.
  • Having worked with many of the following: Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, SemaphoreCI, Ginkgo, GCP, AWS, GKE, EKS, AKS, Rancher, and OpenShift.

 

With offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Vancouver (Canada), Cork (Ireland), and London (England), we have a thriving team of diverse individuals from all over the world. We believe in a collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect for, and commitment from, every employee. We also offer a competitive compensation package along with full health, vision, and dental benefits. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team of individuals who believe in our mission and value openness, collaboration, and teamwork, make Tigera an awesome place to work.

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This Senior Software Development Engineer in Test position at tigera was posted on Apr 24, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
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