Software Quality Engineer
CloudKitchens2 hours ago
Base Salary
$180k - $230k/yr
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.
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About CloudKitchens
CloudKitchens builds delivery-first commercial kitchen facilities and restaurant software for food and beverage operators. It leases turnkey kitchen space and provides tools for order management, delivery logistics, and multi-brand operations, enabling restaurants and entrepreneurs to expand with lower upfront costs. The company is privately held and headquartered in Los Angeles, serving markets across the U.S. with a mix of owned sites and enterprise solutions.