Staff Software Engineer: Cypress Test Automation

Company: Observe, Inc.
Location: San Mateo
Posted on: April 12, 2025

Job Description:

Observe is a SaaS Observability tool that enables Engineering and DevOps teams to troubleshoot modern distributed applications 10x faster. Observe ingests machine-generated data and turns it into a graph of things that are understandable by humans. We enable engineers to spend more time coding features and less time investigating incidents. Because of Observe's unique elastic architecture, our product is priced based on usage, making it cost 10x less than incumbents. to learn more about our mission.Observe was founded by top enterprise VC Sutter Hill Ventures and has a founding team from leading Enterprise SaaS companies Snowflake, Splunk, and Wavefront. We're excited to grow our front-end engineering team. You will be spending your time working and learning from some of the best as we deliver a delightful UI that is both simple to use and powerful enough for experts to troubleshoot complex applications. As a Staff Software Engineer - Cypress Test Automation, you will:

• Own the end-to-end testing effort with the Cypress ecosystem.
• Automate the test frameworks and incorporate front-end testing into our CI/CD.
• Partner closely with the front-end engineering team to plan and execute the end-to-end needs.
• Responsible for monitoring product development and usage at all levels with a perspective toward improving product quality.What we are looking for:
• Passion for end-to-end testing and a self-starter.
• 5+ years of industry experience building a large-scale end-to-end repository.
• Expert knowledge of Cypress end-to-end tools and Jest testing Framework.
• Familiarity with frontend tooling: Webpack, Yarn, PNPM, etc.
• Knowledge of Javascript/Typescript, React, , HTML/SCSS.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins.About Us:Observe's mission is to turn business data into information. Our SaaS Observability product ingests anything with a timestamp - logs, metrics, traces - and then curates and relates that data to provide unique insights into a customer's data universe. If a customer has a problem on the application layer, engineering teams can seamlessly find the root cause of the issue whether that's a new release pushed to production from Jenkins, or an underlying database or memory issue. We enable engineers to spend more time coding features and less time investigating incidents. We reduce outages and issues with customer experience. And we leverage an elastic cloud architecture so that customers only pay for what they use. To learn more about Observe, visit or join the conversation on Twitter @Observe_Inc.Observe Inc. is a diversity-friendly zone. We seek to assemble a heterogeneous team where employees from all backgrounds can feel valued, appreciated, and celebrated, and where individual development does not come second to our collective goals.
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