Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dropzone AI is a company focused on scaling cybersecurity through AI augmentation, aiming to enhance the capabilities of human security engineers. They are looking for a Senior Quality Software Engineer to establish quality validation methodologies for AI-driven systems and elevate the engineering organization's quality practices. This role involves designing testing systems, collaborating with engineering teams, and maintaining test environments to ensure product quality.
Responsibilities
- Quality Engineering Strategy: 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
- Collaboration and Shift Left: Engaging early with engineering to surface risks before implementation, strengthening team wide quality skills, and promoting testability as a core design requirement
- Test Methodology Expansion: Broadening our verification approach beyond unit tests into integration, system, stress, and full workflow testing across the entire stack
- Environment Readiness: Maintaining dependable test environments with strong instrumentation for rapid diagnosis, enhancing observability and logging to shorten the path from failure to root cause
- Data and Tooling: Building tools, fixtures, and supporting libraries that generate stable and repeatable test conditions, enabling reliable validation of complex scenarios without ad hoc data creation
Skills
- 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
- Experience with cloud based monitoring and metrics platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, or CloudWatch
- Background with container orchestration and deployment systems including Kubernetes, GitLab pipelines, or ArgoCD
- Familiarity with modern frontend technologies, particularly React and TypeScript
- Interest or experience in security focused testing and broader cybersecurity practices
- Ability to thrive in a rapidly evolving startup environment
- Comfort using AI assisted coding and development tools
Benefits
- Significant above market new hire equity grants
- Company paid health insurance
- 401K Plan with employer match
- Self-Managed PTO
- Parental leave
- Company-provided equipment
Company Overview
Dropzone AI delivers pre-trained autonomous AI security agents that work alongside human analysts on security operations teams It was founded in 2023, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://dropzone.ai.Company H1B Sponsorship
Dropzone AI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.