--- title: 'QA Automation Engineer - Network and Distributed Systems at Ciroos' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/qa-automation-engineer-network-and-distributed-systems-ciroos-bengaluru-sjd2xsea9h0e' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # QA Automation Engineer - Network and Distributed Systems at Ciroos - **Company:** Ciroos - **Location:** Bengaluru, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-31 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ciroos/bf9ed4a6-e931-4025-85b1-1ed24e3916be ## Job description ## Role Overview We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer with strong networking and distributed-systems expertise who can operate at the intersection of quality, reliability, and system-level testing. This goes far beyond a traditional QA role. In this role, you’ll build automation that tests the limits of complex systems under real-world stress, network chaos, and massive scale. You will work closely with infrastructure, Kubernetes, and distributed networks to break things in staging so they never break in production. ## What You’ll Work On - Kubernetes-based distributed systems and multi-cluster environments - Network-heavy distributed systems and service-to-service communication - L2/L3 networking and cloud networking scenarios - Load balancers, VPCs, routing, DNS and connectivity - Network failures, latency, packet loss and service degradation - Observability and alerting pipelines - Reliability validation and failure-injection testing - API, integration, system and end-to-end automation - Infrastructure and deployment automation - CI/CD pipelines and reliability gates ## Key Responsibilities - Design and build scalable automation frameworks for network, API, integration and system-level validation - Build automated tests for service-to-service communication and distributed workflows - Validate system behavior under network failures, latency, packet loss, connectivity issues and partial failures - Develop failure-injection and reliability tests for distributed systems - Validate Kubernetes networking and multi-cluster behavior - Integrate automated validation into CI/CD pipelines - Analyze failures across logs, metrics, traces and network signals - Partner with SRE, Platform and Backend teams to make systems more testable and observable - Perform deep-dive root cause analysis on system and network failures - Build reusable testing utilities and infrastructure - Help establish reliability and quality standards across the platform Technical Expectations Deep Expertise In - Networking fundamentals and distributed systems - TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS and service communication - Kubernetes networking - Network failure modes and troubleshooting - Distributed-system failure scenarios - Observability and production debugging Strong Hands-on Experience With - Kubernetes / multi-cluster environments - AWS, Azure or GCP networking - VPCs, load balancers, routing and IAM - Network troubleshooting and debugging - API and integration testing - Chaos / failure-injection testing - CI/CD automation Programming - Strong coding skills in Python and Go (mandatory) - Experience building automation frameworks and system-level tooling - Proficiency in Shell scripting and infrastructure automation What Makes This Role Different - You won't just test whether an API returns the expected response. You'll ask: - "What happens when the network behaves badly?" - Can the system detect it? - Can it recover? - Does it fail safely? - Are the right signals generated? - Can we automatically validate that behavior? That's the kind of QA engineering we're looking for. ## About Ciroos We are an early-stage AI startup focused on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Rather than being another observability platform, its goal is to act as an AI SRE teammate that works alongside SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Operations, and IT Operations teams to investigate incidents, determine root causes, and automate remediation. Our team includes experienced entrepreneurs and engineers who have built multiple billion-dollar products from scratch. As a well-funded US-based company backed by top-tier VCs, we have offices in the US, India, and Europe. Join us in our fast-paced environment where you’ll have a front-row seat to shape the future of AI-driven Observability solutions. ## About Ciroos ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Ciroos provides an AI-powered Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teammate that helps enterprise operations teams investigate incidents, explain anomalies, and drive autonomous operations across complex, multi-domain environments. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage) - **Headquarters**: Pleasanton, California, United States - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Ronak Desai (Co-Founder & CEO), Amit Patel (Co-Founder, CTO & VP Engineering) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: AI-powered Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Enterprise Operations Software - **Target Customers**: Enterprise SRE, DevOps, and operations teams managing complex, multi-domain environments - **Mission**: Eliminate reactive firefighting in enterprise operations by building AI that thinks like your best SRE. ## Products & Services - **Ciroos AI SRE Teammate**: An AI-powered platform that acts as a teammate for SRE and operations teams. It provides federated intelligence across fragmented environments, context-aware root cause analysis, and cross-domain understanding. The platform analyzes raw telemetry across cloud, infrastructure, and applications in real time to pinpoint root causes, reduce incident duration, and eliminate investigative toil. It is designed to work across existing tools without centralizing or replacing the current stack. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $21.0M (Seed Round, led by Energy Impact Partners, announced June 2025) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Energy Impact Partners (Lead Investor). Advisors and angels include Todd Underwood (Ex-Reliability at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google), Niall Murphy (SRE Author, Ex-Google, Amazon), Jeetu Patel (President & CPO, Cisco), Prem Jain (EVP Operations, Cisco), Scott Harrell (CEO, Infoblox), Amit Zavery (President, CPO, & COO, ServiceNow), and others. - **Growth Signals**: Emerged from stealth in June 2025 with a $21M seed round. Headcount grew from 1 to 39 employees in its first year (+4500% YoY). The company is actively hiring for founding roles and has a strong LinkedIn following of over 5,000. ## Competitive Advantages - **Founding Team with Deep Domain Expertise**: Founded by operators who have built and scaled businesses from $0 to $5B+ and hold 84 patents. The team includes veterans from Cisco, Rubrik, and other major enterprise tech companies. - **Federated Intelligence**: Unlike tools that require centralizing data, Ciroos works across existing fragmented tool stacks without replacing them, reasoning across domains (apps, infrastructure, cloud, networks). - **Focus on Enterprise Complexity**: Built specifically for complex, multi-domain environments where siloed visibility is a major pain point. - **Strong Advisory Board**: Advisors include top SRE experts from Google, Amazon, and Anthropic, as well as senior leaders from Cisco, ServiceNow, and Broadcom. ## Strategic Focus - **Product Development**: Continuing to build and refine the AI SRE teammate platform, with a focus on cross-domain reasoning and reducing incident response time. - **Go-to-Market**: Emerging from stealth and scaling customer acquisition among large enterprises. - **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring founding engineers and go-to-market talent to build the core team. ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact, Early-Stage Role**: As a founding team member, your work ships quickly and has a direct line to customer outcomes. The company emphasizes moving fast and seeing the impact of your work. - **Experienced Leadership**: Work alongside a founding team that has scaled businesses to $5B+ and holds 84 patents. The company offers mentorship from founders and other experienced coworkers. - **Strong Culture**: The company values "Disagree and Commit," "Customer Obsession," "Speed," "Growth Mindset," and "Trust." They describe a culture with no politics, no bureaucracy, and no permission-seeking. - **Mission-Driven**: The team is focused on solving a hard, meaningful problem: eliminating on-call burnout and preventing major system failures. - **Perks**: Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental benefits; 401k plans and commuter benefits (US employees); free lunches, snacks, and espresso; equity with QSBS eligibility for US employees. - **Work Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but the company has offices in Pleasanton, CA (HQ) and San Francisco, CA, and employs people across 5 countries (including India, Switzerland, Venezuela, and Italy), suggesting a flexible or hybrid model. ## Sources 1. [ciroos.ai](https://ciroos.ai/) 2. [ciroos.ai/careers](https://ciroos.ai/careers/) 3. [ciroos.ai/about-us](https://ciroos.ai/about-us/) 4. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ciroos) 5. 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