Staff Software Engineer, Quality Engineering
Skills
DevopsSoftware As A ServiceCalibrationContextCritical Infrastructure ProtectionFederal LawService-Level Agreements
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- 10+ years across software engineering quality engineering or SDET work including leading quality initiatives across multiple teams
- Real engineering ability to read review and harden agent-produced code and tests with strong TypeScript familiarity
- Experience designing automated testing systems for enterprise SaaS and judging what belongs to machines versus people
- Experience with evidence-based release governance including gates exit criteria waivers and sign-off accountability
- Experience building around AI-produced output such as agent-generated coverage LLM evaluation or calibration
- Depth in CI/CD and designing software that is testable by construction
- Track record of improving engineering organizations through influence and mentoring more junior engineers
Nice to have
- Principal Engineer background
- Staff Engineer background
- Quality Engineering Architect experience
- Senior SDET background
- High-growth SaaS experience
- Playwright familiarity
- Kubernetes knowledge
- Microservices testing experience
Day to day
- Own and lead GridUnity's quality engineering strategy as the technical vision and roadmap scales across product lines
- Build and harden an AI-native, artifact-first quality operating model where agents draft tests and humans arbitrate evidence
- Design release gates, waiver paths, calibration mechanisms, and metrics that make safe-to-ship decisions defensible and fast
- Mentor engineers and QA teammates while improving CI/CD, developer-owned quality, and behavioral validation practices