Top Automation Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Work as an embedded QA automation engineer to design, build, and maintain end-to-end and API test suites, integrate tests into CI/CD, run performance/load tests against a NestJS monolith, manage test data, and validate AI agent behavior and integrations across OMS/WMS/catalog workflows.

Build and ship full-stack customer experience, fraud, and safety tooling for support, investigations, moderation, and abuse detection. Own features from development through deployment, integrate vendor APIs, and maintain reliable production systems that protect users and support teams. Work across frontend and backend using AI coding tools, translating evolving trust, safety, and compliance needs into scalable data models and workflows.

The GTM Engineer will automate sales workflows using tools, build integrations, design a win/loss analysis program, and collaborate with sales teams to leverage AI insights.

Develop and maintain enterprise Ansible automation, infrastructure-as-code solutions, scripts, REST APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and integration workflows. Manage the full automation development lifecycle, troubleshoot production issues, provide technical support, document runbooks, and collaborate with infrastructure, security, and service teams. The role requires secure coding, multi-platform expertise, Agile delivery, on-call participation, U.S. citizenship, and eligibility for Public Trust clearance.

Lead quality assurance initiatives as a hands-on test automation expert. Develop comprehensive strategies covering end-to-end, scale, soak, regression, and chaos testing for distributed systems. Guide and mentor the engineering team, automate testing processes, analyze results, and improve system resilience and reliability across public-cloud and Kubernetes environments.

Build and operate software, integrations, monitoring, and automation for Anthropic’s global AV and collaboration systems. Responsibilities include fleet health monitoring, automated room testing, ticketing, API integrations, provisioning, configuration management, release management, production service operations, and engineering practice standardization. The role partners with Security, IT, and Network teams, enables non-developer contributors, manages the tooling roadmap, and supports platform rollouts with up to four weeks of annual travel.

Develop and maintain enterprise automation solutions using Ansible, Python, Bash, and PowerShell. Build RESTful APIs, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks across Linux, Windows, and cloud platforms. Manage the full automation software lifecycle, integrate enterprise systems, support production environments, document solutions, and collaborate with infrastructure, security, and service teams in Agile environments.

Lead architecture and delivery of IT automations and integrations across platforms (n8n, Airflow, Temporal, Jira). Act as technical DRI for complex automation projects, partner with Security and IAM, build reusable frameworks and documentation, establish engineering standards and code review practices, and mentor peers.

Design, develop, and scale mission-critical backend applications and distributed services. Build Python and Celery services, FastMCP services, Docker Swarm environments, and horizontally scalable architectures. Optimize Couchbase and NoSQL data systems, troubleshoot Linux-based distributed environments, and apply cloud-native AWS practices. Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver secure, reliable solutions while using spec-driven development and AI coding tools.

Build and lead quality engineering for a multi-tenant AI platform. Responsibilities include creating API, UI, backend, performance, security, and database automation; integrating tests into CI/CD; validating cloud and Kubernetes deployments; ensuring tenant isolation and compliance evidence; defining QA standards and release processes; mentoring engineers; and communicating quality risks. Preferred experience includes testing AI/LLM applications, financial systems, observability, chaos engineering, and startup environments.

Leads QA automation initiatives by developing and maintaining automated functional, regression, API, and integration test suites for Guidewire software and mobile applications. Improves CI/CD pipelines, performs root cause analysis, drives quality improvements, collaborates with developers and product owners, and mentors junior QA engineers.

Build and operate Danaher’s enterprise data platform automation and reliability layer. Responsibilities include Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, self-service developer enablement, data platform provisioning, observability, SLOs, auto-remediation, FinOps, compliance guardrails, and event-driven operations across Snowflake, Azure, Matillion, dbt, and Airflow. The role also develops AI-driven operators and copilots using Azure AI Foundry, Anthropic Claude, and related agent frameworks.

Designs and maintains automated testing frameworks for AI-powered applications, APIs, backend services, and distributed systems. Defines test strategies, acceptance criteria, evaluation metrics, tolerances, and quality gates for deterministic and non-deterministic software. Builds regression, integration, API, and end-to-end coverage; evaluates LLMs, agents, prompts, and tool-calling workflows; integrates testing into CI/CD; analyzes failures, telemetry, and logs; reduces flaky tests; and partners with AI, engineering, and product teams on continuous quality practices.

Designs and operates secure, scalable Azure cloud infrastructure supporting AI initiatives. Builds Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, self-service provisioning, containerized environments, observability, monitoring, and reliability practices. Establishes platform standards, evaluates emerging technologies, drives cross-team architecture decisions, mentors engineers, and ensures governance, security, compliance, data quality, and auditability. The role is fully remote with up to 10% travel.

Build and operate Go-based automation for PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning at GitLab.com scale. Develop a PostgreSQL-as-a-service platform, integrate cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tooling, improve database performance and reliability, and create safe upgrade automation. The role includes production ownership, architecture leadership, code reviews, documentation, cross-team collaboration, mentorship, and using AI agents in engineering workflows.

Build and maintain internal automations and AI agents to resolve high-volume IT/service requests. Automate onboarding/offboarding, access provisioning, ticket triage, and knowledge bases; measure impact. Lead identity and access infrastructure (SSO, RBAC, SAML/SCIM), govern SaaS and devices, support security/compliance, and continuously improve workflows across teams.

Designs, develops, and supports enterprise automation solutions using Microsoft Power Platform, scripting, APIs, cloud services, and secure authentication. The role integrates cloud and on-premises systems, builds reusable workflows, monitors performance, resolves issues, documents solutions, and ensures governance and compliance. The engineer collaborates with infrastructure, security, application development, and business stakeholders to improve operational efficiency and service delivery.

Develop and scale Python-based web test automation, emphasizing API-level validation, efficient large-scale CI execution, and zero-flake reliability. Troubleshoot complex failures using logs, network captures, and backtraces; manage containerized and virtual test environments; optimize pipelines; and collaborate with developers on shift-left quality. The role also involves adopting AI-assisted tooling, maintaining automation frameworks, conducting code reviews, and establishing engineering standards.

Develop and scale high-throughput automated assay workflows for antibody and drug discovery. Program laboratory automation instruments and robotic systems, design integrated workcells, troubleshoot bottlenecks, improve reliability and capacity, and collaborate with software engineering and LIMS teams on integrated workflows. Support equipment validation, qualification, documentation, and workflow data analysis while contributing to the growth of the automation team.

Designs and implements automation for spacecraft and ground station operations, monitors satellite health and telemetry, troubleshoots anomalies, executes operational procedures, coordinates orbit maneuvers, and supports satellite integration. The role collaborates across engineering teams to maintain satellite services and fleet performance.

Lead the architecture and technical direction of an offline Electron, React, and SQLite CPQ application. Own the data layer, migrations, integrations with NetSuite and business systems, security boundaries, testing standards, release engineering, and cross-platform packaging. Partner with sales, finance, and operations stakeholders, mentor engineers, guide roadmap decisions, and support contract analysis with document extraction and optional AI capabilities.

Designs, configures, tests, commissions, and supports ISA-88 batch automation solutions for industrial manufacturing clients. Develops batch recipes, control logic, HMI/SCADA interfaces, historian integrations, functional specifications, and test plans. Leads software testing, FATs, SATs, commissioning, start-up, troubleshooting, and client support. Coordinates with engineering teams, mentors junior staff, supports project estimates and proposals, and ensures reliable automation solutions across PLC, DCS, and batch management systems.

Supports PLC, SCADA, and HMI programming, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and maintenance for battery energy storage manufacturing equipment. Assists with equipment integration, process automation improvements, data acquisition, safety systems, documentation, operator training materials, and validation. Works onsite with Controls, Equipment, Process, and Maintenance Engineers while gaining hands-on industrial automation experience.

Leads automation, instrumentation, and controls engineering for small to medium projects. Responsibilities include design, programming, documentation, construction administration, budget management, client and vendor coordination, quality reviews, mentoring junior staff, and developing automation systems with controllers, HMIs, workstations, and servers. The role also creates drawings and specifications, performs engineering calculations, supports proposals, identifies field conditions, and applies applicable electrical, mechanical, building, and regulatory standards.

Designs and maintains automated and functional tests for Salesforce applications, including OmniStudio and LWC. Develops API, regression, integration, end-to-end, and in-sprint automation using Selenium, Java, Cucumber, Playwright, SoapUI, and Postman. Integrates tests with CI/CD pipelines, analyzes failures, maintains frameworks and test environments, applies AI-assisted testing, and mentors junior QA engineers.