Senior Quality Software Engineer

Dropzone AI is a company focused on scaling cybersecurity through AI augmentation. They are seeking a Senior Quality Software Engineer to establish quality validation methodologies for AI-driven systems and enhance overall product quality across the engineering organization.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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