Dropzone AI · 1 month ago
Senior or Principal Quality Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$120K/yr - $150K/yr
5+ years expDropzone AI is a company focused on enhancing cybersecurity through AI technology, aiming to transform the way human security analysts operate. The Senior or Principal Quality Software Engineer will be responsible for establishing quality validation methodologies for AI-driven systems and ensuring strong quality practices across the engineering organization.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cyber SecuritySaaS
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Company paid health insurance
401K Plan with employer match
Self-Managed PTO
Parental leave
And more
Company
Dropzone AI
Dropzone AI delivers pre-trained autonomous AI security agents that work alongside human analysts on security operations teams
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$57.35MKey Investors
Theory VenturesDecibel Partners
2025-07-17Series B· $37M
2024-04-25Series A· $16.85M
2023-08-08Seed· $3.5M
Leadership Team
Edward Wu
Founder and CEO
Recent News
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2025-10-21
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