About Parspec

Founded in 2021, Parspec is revolutionizing material procurement for the $13 trillion USD construction industry by digitizing and organizing the industry's product data. Our proprietary AI technology maintains a current and comprehensive catalogue of millions of products, enabling our customers to identify products that best meet their needs - instantly. Trusted by top designers, builders, distributors and sales agents and backed by leading venture investors, Parspec is paving the way for a more innovative, connected, and sustainable future in construction.

Join us in building transformative technology that reshapes one of the world’s oldest and largest industries.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a skilled SDET to join Parspec's high-performance engineering team and strengthen quality engineering across our Crawler Pipeline, Platform, and Search systems. In this role, you will design automated test frameworks, validate complex distributed systems, and ensure reliability in AI-driven, data-intensive workflows, microservices, and event-driven architectures.

You will collaborate with Platform, Search, and product engineers to build robust testing strategies that enable faster, more reliable releases while maintaining system correctness at scale.

What You Will Achieve and Key Responsibilities

• Test Strategy & Automation: Own test strategy, automation, and reliability validation for Crawler, Platform, and Search services using Python, Go, and AWS tools.

• Framework Development: Design end-to-end automated testing frameworks for microservices, asynchronous data pipelines, integration, regression, and performance testing.

• Performance & Chaos Testing: Build synthetic and chaos testing frameworks to identify edge cases, performance bottlenecks, and data workflow issues in large-scale crawling systems.

• Observability Integration: Collaborate with Platform engineers to instrument observability, alerting, and monitoring (AWS OpenSearch, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).

• Search Quality Assurance: Partner with Search engineers to validate query relevance, accuracy, latency, and performance SLAs.

• Shift-Left Practices: Introduce static analysis, CI/CD gate validation, and reproducible test environments to catch issues early.

• Benchmarking Tools: Create automated performance benchmarking tools to measure throughput, latency, and cost economics across distributed components.

• QA Tooling: Contribute to internal QA frameworks for AI API evaluation, schema validation, and data consistency checks.

• Quality Ownership: Drive continuous improvement and quality ownership across mission-critical systems powering construction data intelligence.

Why This Matters

World-class automation and quality engineering directly enables Parspec to ship faster with confidence. Your test frameworks will validate massive data pipelines processing construction intelligence every minute, preventing quality gaps from rippling across the platform. By raising the quality bar, you'll empower every engineering team to innovate rapidly while maintaining reliability at scale.

Who You Are

You are a quality-focused engineer with 3+ years of experience who thrives in fast-paced, data-heavy environments. You enjoy breaking complex systems, building intelligent test automation, and collaborating across teams to deliver reliable software.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as SDET and QA Automation Engineer

• Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Javascript, Typescript or Java with experience building/maintaining automation frameworks.

• Experience testing distributed microservices, async data pipelines, message queues (AWS Lambda, SQS, Kafka), and UI automated testing.

• Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, ECS, CloudWatch, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3).

• Familiarity with AWS OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, API testing (pytest, Postman), and CI/CD (GitHub Actions).

• Experience with performance testing(Jmeter and etc) or chaos engineering.

• Strong understanding of logging, metrics, and monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus).

• Excellent debugging skills with a "break it to make it better" mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing design patterns and establishing code quality standards

• Knowledge of web servers and distributed system architectures at scale

• Experience coordinating frontend-backend-AI workflows during feature development

• Familiarity with advanced observability tools and production debugging

• Experience with agile methodologies and sprint-based delivery models

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits, including family insurance coverage, free health teleconsultations, and learning/upskilling budgets

• Equity in the company

• Flexible hours and a hybrid work setup

• Unlimited PTO

• Opportunity to grow with a fast-scaling company transforming a large market

• Preferred Location: San Mateo, with regular in-office presence

Join Us – Lead the Transformation!

At Parspec, we recognize that traditional job descriptions don’t always capture the full range of your unique abilities—and that’s perfectly okay. You may not meet every requirement, but if you bring a mix of experiences, fresh perspectives, and a passion that aligns with our mission, we want to hear from you!

The Parspec team believes that varied backgrounds drive better outcomes and fuel innovation. We are a team of self-starters that lead from every seat. We think big, set a standard of excellence and are committed to diversity and a discrimination-free workplace. We welcome applicants from all walks of life to join us and help shape the future at Parspec.

How to Apply

Submit your application and resume highlighting your achievements. Apply now and help drive transformative change in one of the world’s oldest and largest industries!