Senior Quality & Automation Engineer

We live in a world where technology is rapidly changing the educational experiences of students and teachers everywhere, and we have the opportunity to shape how this change takes place. Kira's mission is to harness transformative AI technologies to make world-class personalized teaching and learning accessible to everyone. Kira is a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier Venture Capital funds including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Andrew Ng’s https://aifund.ai/AI Fund, and Primavera.

As a Senior Quality & Automation Engineer at Kira, you will own and elevate the quality bar across our platform. This is not a traditional QA role. We are looking for a senior, pragmatic engineer who ensures high product quality for teachers and students while modernizing how we approach testing, performance, and release confidence. This includes thoughtfully applying AI tools to accelerate test creation, maintenance, and coverage.

This is a full-time position that requires flexibility with work hours and availability outside of regular business hours. We have offices in San Francisco, CA and New York City, NY and we ask that employees work from one of the two locations and come into the office in-person 4 days a week (Wednesdays WFH).

WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Ensure a high-quality, reliable experience for teachers and students across web, API, and AI-driven workflows

- Define and evolve our quality strategy across frontend, backend, and AI services

- Design and implement scalable automated testing across end-to-end, integration, regression, and performance layers

- Own performance and load testing for critical workflows, including login surges, classroom activity, assignment submissions, real-time features, and AI services

- Build realistic workload models from production usage patterns, establish performance baselines and capacity targets, and validate that the platform can handle expected traffic before critical launches and peak usage periods

- Diagnose pe...