Senior Quality Software Engineer

Dropzone AI

Senior Quality Software Engineer dedicated to validating AI driven systems at cybersecurity startup Dropzone AI. Elevating engineering quality practices and collaborating on cutting-edge solutions.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $150,000 - $165,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

company paid health insurance
401K Plan with employer match
Self-Managed PTO
parental leave
significant above market new hire equity grants

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Hard Skills & Tools

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