Senior QA Engineer - Observability
Graphcore is a Bristol-based AI chipmaker (IPU accelerators), a SoftBank subsidiary and a Molten Ventures portfolio company.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
About Graphcore
Graphcore (graphcore.ai) is a British semiconductor company building Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) for AI workloads. Founded in Bristol in 2016, it was acquired by SoftBank in 2024. It is a portfolio company of Molten Ventures.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will validate an end-to-end telemetry and observability platform across metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, APIs, and alerts. You will define test strategies, build automated tests for distributed systems and production-like workloads, test telemetry pipelines and alerting, debug complex issues, and identify root causes before production release.
Requirements
- Experience designing automated test frameworks for distributed or infrastructure systems
- Strong Python programming skills
- Experience testing Linux-based, cloud-native, or containerised environments
- Experience with Kubernetes or Docker
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, API testing, networking, and distributed system behaviour
- Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills
- Familiarity with observability platforms, telemetry pipelines, or time-series data
Responsibilities
- Validate the end-to-end telemetry platform
- Define test strategies
- Build automated functional, integration, system, and regression tests
- Test distributed systems and production-like workloads
- Test telemetry generation, collection, processing, storage, visualisation, and alerting
- Identify and analyse root causes of system-level issues
- Assess releases using evidence and technical analysis
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Family healthcare coverage
- Phantom equity
- Fully funded gym card
- Fitness support
- Wellbeing support
- Death insurance
- Disability insurance
- Retirement savings with 4% employer contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme