Senior Quality Software Engineer
Dropzone AI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $180,000 - $225,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Python
About the role
- Designing and maintaining testing systems for deterministic logic and AI influenced, non deterministic behavior, integrating these validations directly into CI, release pipelines, and review workflows
- Engaging early with engineering to surface risks before implementation, strengthening team wide quality skills, and promoting testability as a core design requirement
- Broadening our verification approach beyond unit tests into integration, system, stress, and full workflow testing across the entire stack
- Maintaining dependable test environments with strong instrumentation for rapid diagnosis, enhancing observability and logging to shorten the path from failure to root cause
- Building tools, fixtures, and supporting libraries that generate stable and repeatable test conditions, enabling reliable validation of complex scenarios without ad hoc data creation
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in software quality engineering, test engineering, or a closely related discipline
- Strong investigative instincts and a deep interest in understanding failures, identifying root causes, and preventing recurrence
- Skill in isolating external dependencies during integration tests by mocking third party services using custom code or established tools
- Hands on experience evaluating systems powered by LLMs, AI processing pipelines, or other probabilistic technologies
- Proficiency with Python and modern test frameworks within container based environments
- Demonstrated success designing automated test suites across multiple layers of a contemporary application stack
- Experience working within fully containerized development and execution workflows
- Being data-driven is part of your DNA
- Early-stage startup mindset. You thrive on ambiguity and move with lightspeed execution.
Benefits
- company paid health insurance
- 401K Plan with employer match
- Self-Managed PTO
- parental leave
- more
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
software quality engineeringtest engineeringintegration testingsystem testingstress testingworkflow testingPythonautomated test suitescontainerized environmentsmocking third party services
Soft skills
investigative instinctsunderstanding failuresidentifying root causespreventing recurrencedata-driven mindsetadaptabilityspeed of executionteam collaborationquality assuranceproblem-solving