Staff Software Engineer, Quality Infrastructure

We're the leader in safe, fast, and simple supplemental student transportation. Through our marketplace, we connect kids to highly-vetted caregivers on wheels. Through our software, we solve the biggest transportation challenges facing schools and school districts across the country. Founded by three moms as a solution to their own transportation challenges, we've now facilitated more than five million rides across over over 20states. 5000 list numerous times and the Deloitte 500 Fast-Growing Technology list. We use AI every day, and not as a productivity add-on. If you've already built AI into how you work, you'll hit the ground running. We're remote-first, mission-driven, and built for people who want to do work that matters with people who hold a high bar. Platform & DevOps is a team that builds the platform that HopSkipDrive Engineering ships on: cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, test infrastructure, and the AI coding-agent tooling used by our product teams. Our engineers use coding agents every day, and this team makes the path from pull request to production as fast and safe as possible. Lead the development of infrastructure to help HopSkipDrive engineers test and ship safely through CI/CD, ephemeral environments, and AI-assisted testing and verification. Develop workflows where AI safely drafts test suites, scenarios, and verification artifacts while allowing engineers to oversee quality, evals, and safeguards. Provide technical leadership across the platform team and the four product teams, influencing how engineers test and ship without formal authority over them. Take part in on-call and incident response for the pipeline and test infrastructure, act as the escalation point when CI or environments fail, and turn incidents into lasting fixes. Build alignment in writing with product and engineering through proposals and decision records. You are an experienced engineer in developer infrastructure, test automation, or platform engineering, with a record of leading technical work across more than one team and shaping engineering standards through code review and documentation. You have strong knowledge of AWS, infrastructure as code (Terraform), containers (Docker or Kubernetes), and Postgres, and are comfortable inside a large Rails application with React and mobile clients. You have built and owned a CI/CD pipeline and automated (unit and end-to-end) test coverage that an entire engineering organization depended on. You have deep experience with Playwright (or an equivalent), including production experience building systems to run automated tests and CI for web, iOS, and Android. You have production experience with coding agents and LLM tooling for test generation or verification, including improving how a team adopts them, and clear views on where they fail. You make and explain trade-offs among customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, and reliability, in writing, in a remote and asynchronous company. You are direct, low-ego, customer-minded, and human-centric. We want you to be an owner in our company and share in executing our vision, so every full-time employee has equity. In addition, we offer flexible vacation, medical, dental, vision and life insurance, 401(k), FSA, and an opportunity to work for a uniquely positioned, VC-backed company in a hugely attractive space with significant upside potential. This position is remote and, as such, compensation will ultimately be in line with the location in which the position is filled. Final compensation for this role will be determined by several factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skill set, certifications, and specific work location. The total compensation package for this role also includes equity stock options. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected class. "This is a fully remote role.