Senior Automation Engineer – US SaaS

Job Description:

• You’ll build and maintain reliable automation that interacts with real-world web portals and third-party systems—where correctness, traceability, and security matter as much as speed
• Own the design, development, and operation of web-portal automation workflows using Playwright (and related tooling)
• Build automation services primarily in Python , with strong supporting development in TypeScript
• Implement evaluation/validation (“evals”) to measure automation accuracy, catch regressions, and improve reliability over time
• Maintain strong audit-trail discipline : deterministic logging, event traces, artifacts, and reproducible runs for debugging and compliance needs
• Design automation with a security-first mindset , following best practices for handling sensitive workflows and data
• Collaborate with engineering/product stakeholders to translate ambiguous real-world processes into pragmatic, shippable automation
• Improve robustness against common automation challenges (dynamic UIs, flaky states, rate limits, auth flows, partial failures) while keeping systems maintainable

Requirements:

• Strong experience building production-grade systems in Python and TypeScript
• Hands-on experience with Playwright or similar browser automation frameworks (Selenium/Puppeteer), ideally for portal automation at scale
• A “pragmatic shipper” mindset: you prioritize delivering reliable working software over research-heavy approaches
• Comfort building systems with strong observability: structured logs, metrics, alerts, and clear debugging workflows
• Experience creating or maintaining automated testing/evals , quality gates, and release discipline
• Solid understanding of secure engineering practices (secrets management, least privilege, secure auth patterns, safe handling of sensitive data)
• Bonus points: Experience working in compliance-heavy environments (e.g., HIPAA , SOC 2)
• Experience designing audit-ready systems (traceability, change management, access logging)
• Experience automating complex multi-step workflows across multiple vendor portals with inconsistent UX
• Experience hardening automation against adversarial or brittle UI behavior (captcha-like flows, frequent UI changes, bot detection constraints) in legitimate/compliant ways

Benefits:

• Competitive salary (based on level and experience) + equity + PTO
• Comprehensive benefits package (tailored to your location)
• The opportunity to make a tangible impact on people’s lives
• A collaborative, remote-first culture