Sauce Labs, a company selling cloud-based browser and mobile app testing, posts company news and browser compatibility commentary.
HN mostly links it as a cross-browser testing service, often alongside BrowserStack, and one employee mentions it in a hiring post.
Sauce Labs | Senior Eng, REST API | San Francisco, CA or Vancouver, BC | full-time, ideally on-site but open to remote
Sauce Labs, a successful and rapidly growing startup building high availability software testing tools for developers and enterprises, is looking for passionate Senior Software Engineers to add to its API team.
The Role:
Work on a cross-functional project team and participate in shaping the technical direction to deliver high fast and high availability APIs for consumption by our own services and customers.
Participate in the entire development lifecycle, from planning through implementation, documentation, testing, and deployment, all the way to monitoring.
Produce high quality, maintainable code with great test coverage.
Make intelligent choices for the adoption of new technologies based on your extensive experience.
Enable massive scalability of our API while ensuring no negative consequences on our upstream data sources and perfect user experience on the customer side, including graceful degradation of data consumption.
Protect our systems and our data from exploits, DDOS attacks, or other security loopholes.
You:
6+ years of software development experience, with significant time spent in backend web API development.
Solid understanding of the underlying technologies that power fast, safe, and rich web experiences, from HTTP to SSL to WebSockets, and especially API principles like rate limiting, caching, streaming, etc...
Demonstrated focus on testing…
Sauce Labs - San Francisco - Core Infrastructure Engineer
We're looking for backend developers to help us scale our highly available service and massive cloud of Windows, Mac and Linux virtual machines. If you re an experienced developer with an interest in distributed systems, Linux, Python, async programming and devops. If you love solving complex problems and working with awesome people, shoot me an email at santi at saucelabs.
What we are looking for:
- You are passionate about software.
- You know what it takes to ship something.
- You can think outside of the box.
- You are not afraid of learning new things and improving every day.
- You enjoy difficult problems and solve them in straightforward and practical ways.
What we offer:
- You will join a productive team
- A work environment operating with values to prevent politics and friction
- Competitive compensation, including benefits and equity
- Catered lunches, company events and after hours with a happy group of coworkers
- Sunny office in SOMA, San Francisco, in a pet-friendly building
About Sauce:
Sauce Labs is a SAAS+E2E series D startup in the bay area. We provide an automated testing cloud service so our customers don't have to build their own Selenium or Appium grids. We pride ourselves about our values and transparency (https://saucelabs.com/our-values). Oh, and a nice to have these days: we have a real business model!
About the Team:
Our Core team is currently 8 people and we plan to grow…
Sauce Labs - http://saucelabs.com/ - San Francisco, Vancouver, or remote - Software Engineer, Mobile R&D
We're making mobile devices do things they aren't supposed to. We need your help.
People from many different backgrounds will be considered, because most of these things have never been done before anyway. What we're doing combines Selenium/Appium testing, cloud engineering, networking, virtual machines, LXC containers, Android, iOS, python scripting, you name it. If you have a couple of those things under your belt, and you're smart and not afraid of doing hard detective work sometimes, I encourage you to apply. Previous work with a small team in a startup environment is preferred.
We're very active in open source communities.
Also, of all the places I've ever worked (including the allegedly "don't be evil" one), this place is the most serious about values and integrity. We have a huge opportunity in front of us, but we also want to work with people who share those values.
https://saucelabs.com/careers/
Sauce Labs (San Francisco, CA)
About Sauce Labs: We are a tight-knit team working to transform how software testing and development gets done. Our platform makes Selenium testing, JavaScript Unit testing, manual testing, and mobile application testing hassle-free. Sauce lets you test your mobile and desktop web apps instantly across 350+ OS/Browser platforms & debug easier with videos and screenshots.
We are currently looking for:
Core Engineers
Software Engineers (Full-Stack Web)
Software Engineers (Mobile R&D)
Senior Software Engineers (Core)
Senior Software Engineers (Web Frontend)
Senior Software Engineers (Web Backend)
System Administrators
Solution Architects
To learn more about Sauce Labs, please visit: https://saucelabs.com/
If you're interested in joining Sauce, send us your resume at: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qDz9Vfw0&page=Jobs
>I believe, and you'll call me crazy, but the indicator for this second trend will be a focus on automated testing (not just unit testing) and operations cost at consumer internet companies. Right now I think maybe 5% or 10% of consumer internet companies even run one bit of test automation, hell automation at all. Look for this as an indicator that they've figured out automation reduces costs and increases agility.
http://saucelabs.com/ is a company I know of in this space, but their product SUCKS (on Ubuntu/Firefox at least) and they didn't respond to my complaint emails (or fulfill their promise to remind me to cancel my trial subscription before I had to start paying for it). If someone wants to do automated browser testing right that would be awesome.
The actual IE for Mac has died long ago and was barely related to IE for Windows anyway. If you mean current versions, try something like Saucelabs interactive sessions. They offer many different OS/browser combinations in VMs and even their free offering is plenty for light use. https://www.saucelabs.com/ for more...
In more limited form, Microsoft have their own freely downloadable VMs for certain versions of IE, though there are some tricky licensing issues, the VMs expire, and it's all quite cumbersome. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF
For really basic tests, there's also the IE net renderer at http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/