Principal Quality Engineer - Engineering Excellence

Job description

About the Role

Skyhigh Security is looking for a Principal Quality Engineer to join our Engineering Excellence organization. Reporting to the VP of Engineering Excellence, you'll play a critical role in defining and driving a unified Quality Engineering (QE) strategy across all product lines. This is a highly influential, cross-functional role focused on raising company-wide engineering quality standards, fostering a culture of quality, and ensuring consistency in execution.

You will partner with engineering leadership, product management, development teams, and architects to embed quality into every stage of the software life cycle from planning through release and beyond. Quality will be your lens across Agile practices, development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and user experience, helping teams shift quality left and deliver reliable, customer-centric products.

Bringing a strong background in both functional and non-functional testing, you'll lead initiatives to standardize quality practices, improve test architecture, scale automation, and drive continuous improvement. Your work will ensure our products are not only technically robust but also intuitive, performant, and trustworthy in the eyes of our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical and strategic leadership in quality engineering across multiple teams and domains.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to align teams on shared quality goals and practices.
• Guide the integration of quality into Agile workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• A hands-on approach to evaluating, evolving and adopting test architecture, tooling, and automation strategies.
• Mentor engineers and help mature the organizations overall QE capabilities.
• Champion customer-centric quality, ensuring that product reliability and usability meet real-world needs.