Software Quality Engineer

Responsibilities

• Create and execute test strategies and detailed test plans across user interfaces, backend services, cloud infrastructure, integrations, and robot-adjacent systems.
• Build and maintain automated tests for APIs, backend services, web applications, integrations, and end-to-end operational workflows.
• Own release checkout and readiness validation, including defining criteria, documenting results, identifying blockers, and supporting go/no-go decisions.
• Perform exploratory, functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing for kitchen operations, delivery platforms, commerce integrations, and physical production interfaces.
• Improve testability through simulation environments, mocked services, test data, diagnostic tooling, and repeatable test environments.
• Support rollout and production operations through validation, observability, issue reproduction, early triage, and an on-call or support rotation.
• Collaborate with product, culinary, operations, robotics, firmware, mechanical, and software engineering teams to identify quality risks and validate system behavior.
• Improve logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, and other diagnostic capabilities, and participate in design, release, incident, and technical reviews.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software quality, test engineering, or related experience, including ownership of complex test strategies or quality initiatives across multiple components.
• Deep experience creating and executing test plans for production software and improving software quality, reliability, and testability.
• Strong test automation experience using one or more programming languages, with experience testing APIs, backend services, web applications, databases, integrations, and asynchronous or event-driven workflows.
• Experience owning or coordinating release validation, release checkout, or production-readiness activities.
• Strong debugging, investigation, product judgment, and communication skills, including the ability to translate operational workflows into practical validation strategies.
• Experience with CI/CD systems and integrating automated tests into build and deployment pipelines.
• Experience with browser automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or similar is preferred.
• Experience with Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, C#, Docker, Kubernetes, Protobuf, Terraform, Git, SQL, simulation environments, hardware-in-the-loop testing, observability tools, incident response, production support, or on-call rotations is preferred.

Benefits

• Base salary range of $180,000-$230,000 per year, with potential eligibility for equity awards and an annual performance-based bonus.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including HSA options; company-paid life and disability insurance; and voluntary supplemental insurance options.
• 401(k), Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, commuter benefits, pet insurance discount, and other employee benefits.
• Discretionary vacation, eight paid holidays, paid sick time, paid bereavement leave, and paid parental leave.
• Los Angeles-based office role requiring onsite work five days per week.