# Senior Software Engineer, Quality Engineering

**Company:** [Alpaca](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/alpaca)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** QA Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, Helm, GitHub Actions, google cloud build, LLMs, ai-assisted engineering, CI/CD, chaos engineering, Docker, Terraform, argo cd, Kafka, Python, TypeScript
**Posted:** 2026-07-22

> Senior Software Engineer building automated test frameworks, CI/CD infrastructure, and AI-powered quality tools in Go and Kubernetes for a global fintech API platform. Requires 5+ years production software engineering experience, strong Go and Kubernetes skills, and experience with LLM tools for testing.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and build automated test frameworks across REST and gRPC API surface.
- Leverage AI and LLM-based tooling to accelerate test generation, harden regression coverage, and turn production incidents into automated tests.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Build.
- Design and execute load, stress, and scalability tests.
- Introduce chaos engineering practices with fault-injection and resilience experiments.
- Standardize tooling and infrastructure to improve developer experience.
- Partner with other teams to raise test coverage, reliability, and speed across services.
- Dig into application code to root-cause failures and drive fixes.
- Mentor and guide product engineers on quality and continuous improvement.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer building and maintaining production systems.
- Experience writing code in strongly typed languages with at least 1 year of Go.
- Fluent with AI-assisted engineering and LLM-based tools, with a clear point of view on their use for quality.
- Experience building and maintaining CI pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions or Google Cloud Build.
- Experience designing and building automated test frameworks, understanding challenges of microservices for integration and end-to-end testing.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes beyond basics: able to write Helm charts, understand security best practices, with prior experience or certifications.
- Previous startup experience.
- Ability to take tasks from start to finish: gathering requirements, implementing solutions, deploying, and monitoring.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience using AI/LLM tooling for QA automation such as test generation, flaky-test triage, or incident-to-regression pipelines.
- Experience writing code in Python or TypeScript; building efficient Dockerfiles and secure container images.
- Experience with load tests using k6 (REST) and ghz (gRPC), analyzing pprof/trace output.
- Experience with IaC using Argo CD or Terraform; experience with Google Cloud Platform, Google Kubernetes Engine, Tilt, or writing Kubernetes Operators.
- Experience with chaos engineering using tools like Chaos Mesh, LitmusChaos, or Gremlin.
- Familiarity with testing event-driven systems using Kafka or Redpanda.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Stock Options
- Health Benefits
- New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500
- Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

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