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Director, SDET

Lead SDET strategy to ensure platform reliability across 4B daily API hits

As Director of SDET at HighLevel, you will lead the software development engineering in test function to ensure quality and reliability of an AI-powered business operating system. Your work will focus on maintaining platform stability amid 4 billion API hits and 2.5 billion message events daily. You will own test strategy, automation, and performance validation across a distributed microservices architecture supporting over 1 million businesse...

Why This Role?

Direct impact on a platform serving 1M+ businesses with 4B+ daily API hits

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and execute test strategy for 250+ microservices and distributed data systems
  • Lead automation efforts to validate platform performance at scale
  • Ensure reliability of systems handling 4 billion API hits and 2.5 billion message events daily
  • Collaborate across teams to maintain quality in a global remote-first organization
  • Own end-to-end test coverage for features supporting 1.5B monthly messages and 200M leads

Requirements

  • Experience leading SDET or quality engineering teams
  • Deep knowledge of test automation frameworks and strategies
  • Background in validating large-scale distributed systems
  • Expertise in performance and reliability testing for high-volume platforms
  • Familiarity with microservices architectures and API-driven platforms

Required Skills

automationsoftware testingleadershipproject managementcommunicationtest strategytest automationperformance testingdistributed systemsmicroservicesquality leadership

Indonesia Context

Working Hours Overlap:
Flexible — work your own hours
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View Original Description from Lever Postings

Original description from Lever Postings

About HighLevel: HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies, entrepreneurs and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. Today, HighLevel supports SMBs across 150+ countries, fueling community-driven growth rooted in real customer outcomes. To date, businesses operating on HighLevel have generated over $7 billion in ecosystem value, demonstrating the impact of shared infrastructure at scale. By centralizing conversations, automation and intelligence into one system, we help businesses move faster, reduce complexity and execute efficiently. Behind the platform, HighLevel powers more than 4 billion API hits and 2.5 billion message events daily. With 250 terabytes of distributed data, 250+ microservices and over 1 million domain names supported, our architecture is built for performance, resilience and long-term scalability. Our People With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, HighLevel operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership. We value initiative, clarity and execution, creating space for ambitious people to build systems that support millions of businesses worldwide. Here, innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated and people come first, no matter where they call home. Our Impact Every month, HighLevel enables more than 1.5 billion messages, 200 million leads and 20 million conversations for the more than 1 million businesses we support. Behind those numbers are real people building independence, expanding opportunity and creating measurable impact. We’re proud to be a part of that. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel or Blog Posts.

Salary Context

Similar Engineering roles on LokerDollar pay around $215.8k/yr (range $19.6k–1000k/yr, n=538 active listings).

Hiring at HighLevel

HighLevel has 16 other active roles on LokerDollar and has been hiring here since May 6, 2026 — across Engineering, Data & Analytics, Product.

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Company
HighLevel
Job Type
full time
Location
Remote · Dallas, USA
Category
Seniority
lead
PostedRecheck the source
Aug 13, 2026

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