Requirements: English
Company: Stott and May
Region: Strasbourg , Grand Est
Freelance/B2B_Long-term Project
Chaos Test Engineer
Are you someone who thrives on uncovering the unknown? Do you believe the best way to build resilient systems is to break them firston purpose? Were looking for a Chaos Test Engineer to help us test the limits of our distributed infrastructure, expose hidden weaknesses, and strengthen our systems from the inside out.
What Youll Be Doing
- Engineer Controlled Chaos: Design creative, real-world failure scenariosthink degraded services, dropped packets, or network partitionsto test system resilience.
- Push Systems to the Edge: Execute chaos experiments in sandbox or production-safe environments and observe how systems respond under pressure.
- Turn Breakdowns into Breakthroughs: Dig into logs, metrics, and behavior patterns to uncover vulnerabilities and improvement opportunities.
- Automate the Mayhem: Build reusable tools and scripts to automate chaos tests across environments.
- Partner Across Teams: Work closely with engineering, operations, and security to embed resilience into everything we build.
- Tell the Story: Translate findings into clear, actionable reports and share insights with both technical and non-technical audiences.
What You Bring
- Solid Systems Thinking: A deep understanding of how modern, distributed systems functionand fail.
- Hands-On Coding: Experience with scripting or programming languages like Python, Go, or similar.
- Chaos Tools Know-How: Familiarity with platforms like Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, Litmus, or equivalent.
- Sharp Analytical Skills: You know how to turn data into decisions and noise into signals.
- Communication Confidence: Comfortable explaining complex technical results in plain, accessible language.
- Curiosity and Creativity: Youre not just solving problemsyoure finding new ways to surface and fix them before they hurt us.
This isnt your typical test roleits an opportunity to shape how reliability is built from the ground up. If you like the sound of deliberate disruption for a better system, lets talk.