About FireHydrant

FireHydrant is building the only reliability focused platform. The FireHydrant platform includes Incident Response, Status Pages, and more, so you can take control of your complex system, reduce downtime, and work better together. We’re a Series B company with around 50 employees who sit across the United States and we’re growing. Check out our blog to learn more about us.

About The Role

This position will be our next person filling out our test engineering team. Your main focuses will be writing code and acting as a mentor to all of us to ensure our work is the best it can be. You will be collaborating with engineers of all disciplines helping us to ensure optimal quality for our customers.

What You’ll Do

• Support the larger Engineering team through building and maintaining our testing strategies, partnering with another test engineer
• Work with all of Engineering as a coach and mentor for how we all think about quality, helping us to learn and refine best-practices for our test development and utilization
• Foster a healthy, thriving and inclusive environment where we all take pride in the quality of our work
• Work closely with Product, Design and Support to ensure that our solutions to customer issues solves their needs without introducing unexpected problems along the way

What You’ll Bring

• Experience with load, stress and performance testing and creating these practices within an organization
• Experience building automated end-to-end tests for web applications using Cypress or Selenium WebDriver using javascript
• Experience contributing to young test frameworks, suggesting improvements, and maintaining these tests
• Dedication to working with engineers to learn best-practices for ensuring quality
• Experience getting automated tests into automated deployment pipelines
• Passion for working with, teaching, and learning from a diverse group of people
• Emotional intelligence and understanding that people are more important than technology

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid health, vision and dental premiums for the employee and 75% of dependents
• Unlimited vacation policy with a minimum requirement of three weeks off per-year
• Wellness program: reimbursements for your gym membership, athletic equipment, nutrition plans, etc
• Education budget: conferences, books, online courses, etc
• Home office stipend: get your workspace set up in a way that works best for you
• 401k match

Life at FireHydrant

• We’re remote-first with employees around the US, our headquarters is in NYC (Union Square)
• 1-2x per year we will gather as a company, depending on the safety of such gathering
• We collaborate through Slack, Zoom, Figma, Notion, and Clubhouse
• We practice healthy work-life balance; we expect sustainable working hours and require use of your minimum three (3) week vacation time
• Kind candor - we expect honesty delivered through kindness, first and foremost
• Transparency & equity - information is shared openly in Slack channels; we welcome ideas and contribution regardless of role or experience level
• Mutual mentorship - we believe in the power of mentorship and that everyone (of all skill levels) has something to learn, and something to teach

Compensation

FireHydrant believes that everyone should be compensated fairly and we strive for transparency within our organization and the industry. We set our salaries at the 75th percentile based on compensation data from hundreds of companies at our stage and everyone in a given role is paid the same without adjusting for locality. The compensation for this position is $150,000, $171,000, or $180,000 depending on leveling.