Principal Quality Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Mexico, +3 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and enhance the company-wide quality engineering roadmap.

• Establish a quality accountability framework for engineers, engineering managers, and product managers.

• Create testing strategies encompassing unit, component, contract, API, end-to-end, mobile, performance, load, and accessibility testing.

• Innovate and develop AI-driven quality tooling, including AI agents and Claude Code-style tools.

• Manage CI/CD quality gates, end-to-end and visual regression pipelines, performance budgets, and mobile test automation utilizing emulators and real device clouds.

• Determine which checks should block deployments versus those that can run asynchronously while ensuring pipelines remain efficient.

• Integrate monitoring with incident response and create actionable production-quality dashboards.

• Offer technical mentorship to QA engineers across teams and provide input for their performance evaluations.

• Collaborate with the QA squad to enhance existing standards, tools, and quality practices.

• Investigate, test, and assess new quality engineering methodologies and tools.

• Guide engineers on testing methodologies and conduct enablement sessions.

• Report directly to the Head of Engineering.

• Potentially take on direct management of QA engineers as the squad expands.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in AI-native quality engineering, including leveraging AI for test generation.

• Proficiency in establishing agentic tooling such as Claude Code or MCP-based workflows.

• Capability to design testing strategies suitable for a team's maturity level.

• Practical experience in building and maintaining component, contract, API, end-to-end, and performance test suites.

• Familiarity with CI pipelines and test tooling/infrastructure.

• Ability to coach engineers on testing methodologies and facilitate enablement sessions.

• Willingness to engage in hands-on infrastructure work.

• Capacity to mentor QA engineers across teams and influence without direct management authority.

• Experience in hiring, coaching, and performance management within a QA or engineering team is a plus.

• Comfort in working with US-facing partners and adjusting hours as necessary.

🏝️ Benefits

• Base salary: $80,000–$100,000 USD annually.

• Fully remote position.

• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO).

• Commitment to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

• Adherence to applicable state and local nondiscrimination laws.