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title: 'Staff QA Engineer at Tatari'
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# Staff QA Engineer at Tatari

- **Company:** Tatari
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tatari/jobs/8884033002

## Job description

Tatari is on a mission to revolutionize TV advertising. Founded in 2016 to help transform the antiquated world of TV advertising through the intelligent application of AI and machine learning, Tatari helps some of the world’s fastest growing brands including Chime, Calm, Tecovas, Manscaped, Saatva, and Liquid I.V., reach their customers using linear and streaming TV ads. Our platform combines sophisticated media buying with proprietary analytics to turn TV advertising into an automated, digital-like experience, enabling businesses of any size to advertise on TV.

That approach has earned Tatari broad industry recognition, including being named [Best CTV AdTech Platform](https://www.tatari.tv/insights/tatari-named-best-ctv-adtech-platform-in-2025-martech-breakthrough-awards) in the 8th annual MarTech Breakthrough Awards, as well as honors from Digiday (https://www.tatari.tv/insights/tatari-awarded-best-ctv-ad-platform, AdExchanger ([Most Innovative TV Advertising Technology](https://www.tatari.tv/insights/tatari-wins-adexchangers-2023-most-innovative-tv-advertising-technology-award)), and Business Insider (https://www.tatari.tv/insights/business-insider-names-Tatari-a-2023-hottest-adtech-company. Tatari has also been recognized as the [Best Place to Work](https://www.tatari.tv/insights/inc-magazine-names-tatari-a-best-workplace-for-the-3rd-year-in-a-row) by Inc. Magazine. Backed by an executive team of former founders and senior leaders from companies including Shazam, TrueCar, AdapTV, LiveRail, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Yahoo, Tatari continues to scale rapidly as TV advertising enters its next major era.

## Overview

We are looking for a Staff QA Engineer to join the Buying and Optimization team. In this role, you will work alongside engineering leadership to raise the bar for testing practices, set best practices, and scale our automation frameworks. You will have the opportunity to partner with product leaders to ensure correctness, reliability, and smooth user experience across Tatari’s buying platform and adjacent services.

## Responsibilities

- Design, build, and maintain Tatari’s end-to-end (E2E) test automation framework in Playwright. Write a large share of the core framework code, shared utilities, and the hardest test suites yourself.
- Set the technical direction for test automation, including tooling, architecture, and testing patterns, and turn it into reference code and design docs others can follow.
- Write and improve unit and integration tests across the stack (TypeScript/Jest, Python/pytest). Build the patterns, fixtures, and helpers that make good testing the easiest path for QA engineers and feature teams.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines; fix flaky tests, speed up test runs, improve pipeline observability, and build reliable release gates.
- Build tooling for data validation and backend verification, including SQL-based data integrity checks, API contract and response validation, and test data setup for sandbox and staging environments.
- Do hands-on exploratory testing on the highest-risk workflows, and review test plans and automation code written by other engineers.
- Act as the senior technical voice for QA. Give engineering and product leadership risk assessments and coverage data to inform release decisions.
- Raise the testing bar across engineering by mentoring, pairing, and writing best-practice docs. Take part in technical interviews for QA candidates.

## Qualifications

- 7+ years of experience as an SDET, QA Automation Engineer, or Software Engineer with a strong focus on automated testing and QA methodologies
- Expert in automated E2E testing (Playwright preferred, Cypress or Selenium considered).
- Solid TypeScript and Python skills (Jest, pytest, or similar), plus familiarity with React applications and bonus for client-side web applications. Proficient in SQL.
- A track record of building test automation frameworks for UIs, APIs, and microservices from scratch and scaling them as teams grew.
- Proven ability to set testing strategy and standards for a team, and drive their adoption across multiple engineers and projects.
- Strong communicator, whether its presenting to engineering and product leadership or mentoring/coaching other engineers.
- Strategic mindset: able to prioritize testing investment against coverage and risk, and make the case for QA roadmap decisions.
- Detail focused, strong analytical skills, a knack for edge-case discovery, and a genuine commitment to engineering excellence.

## Benefits

- Total compensation ($170,000 - 200,000/annually)
- Equity compensation
- Health insurance coverage for you and your dependents
- 401K, FSA, and commuter benefits
- $150 monthly spending account
- $1,000 annual continued education benefit
- $500 Newbie Productivity Perk
- Unlimited PTO and sick days
- Monthly Company Wellness Day Off
- Snacks, drinks, and catered lunches at the office
- Team building events
- Hybrid RTO of 2 days per week in office.

At Tatari, we believe in the importance of cultivating teams with diverse backgrounds and offering equal opportunities to all. We strive to create a welcoming, inclusive environment where every team member feels valued and diversity is celebrated.

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## About Tatari

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tatari builds infrastructure to modernize TV advertising, providing a convergent TV ad platform for buying and measuring campaigns across streaming TV, linear TV, and online video.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: Year not explicitly stated on primary sources; executive bios indicate it was founded in the mid-2010s.
- **Founders**: Philip Inghelbrecht (CEO, Co-Founder) and Mike Swinson (Co-Founder, Chief Data Scientist)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Advertising Technology (AdTech) — specifically TV advertising and data analytics.
- **Target Customers**: B2B — brands, agencies, and publishers. Serves everyone from first-time TV advertisers to those spending $100M+ per year.
- **Mission/Purpose**: To bring automation, control, and transparency to TV advertising, providing a "clear way forward" as TV and digital converge.

## Products & Services
- **Tatari Platform (Self-Serve)**: A unified platform for planning, buying, and measuring TV ad campaigns across linear and streaming TV. Includes optional strategy and managed services.
- **Vault Data Clean Room**: A technology for secure data collaboration between advertisers and publishers.
- **TheViewPoint**: A measurement and analytics tool for evaluating TV advertising performance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric (Funding)**: Total funding is not explicitly stated in the provided sources. The company is private and has raised venture capital (notable investors include those tied to founders' previous ventures).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in the provided sources. However, the executive team includes former leaders from Shazam, TrueCar, AdapTV, LiveRail, LKQD, Remixation, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Stripe, and Yahoo.
- **Growth Signals**: Actively hiring across multiple departments (52 open jobs as of the search date), with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Poland, and Ukraine. The company has built technology for both the buy-side and sell-side of TV advertising, indicating platform expansion.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Convergent TV Focus**: Tatari is a dedicated platform for both linear and streaming TV, a niche that is growing rapidly as TV advertising converges with digital.
- **Data Science Core**: Founded and led by data scientists and engineers (not traditional agency folks), giving it a strong technical and analytical moat.
- **Self-Service + Managed Service**: Offers both a self-serve platform for sophisticated buyers and a full-service option for those needing more support, covering a wide market segment.

## Strategic Focus
- **Platform Expansion**: Building infrastructure for both advertisers (buy-side) and publishers (sell-side), moving beyond just a buying tool to a full ecosystem.
- **Data Collaboration**: Development of data clean rooms (Vault) to enable secure, privacy-compliant data sharing.
- **Measurement & Attribution**: Continued investment in analytics and measurement tools to prove TV advertising ROI.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as fast-paced, intellectually stimulating, and supportive. The company emphasizes a "learn from mistakes" attitude and values diverse perspectives. They have employee resource groups, volunteer events, and social activities.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid in-office + work-from-home schedule. Offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Poland, and Ukraine.
- **Engineering Focus**: The team is heavily weighted toward engineers and data scientists. The engineering culture is described as building solutions to mission-critical problems with a lean, fast-moving approach.
- **Perks**: Inclusive culture with events, book clubs, meditation classes, and family activities.

## Sources
1. [tatari.tv - Company Homepage](https://www.tatari.tv/)
2. [tatari.tv - About Page](https://www.tatari.tv/about-tv-ad-technology-company)
3. [tatari.tv - Team Page](https://www.tatari.tv/about-us/our-team)
4. [tatari.tv - Careers Page](https://www.tatari.tv/careers)
5. [Greenhouse - Tatari Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tatari/jobs/8403003002)

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