Staff Software Engineer, Quality Infrastructure

Job Description:

• Lead development of infrastructure for safe testing and shipping through CI/CD, ephemeral environments, and AI-assisted testing and verification
• Develop AI workflows that draft test suites, scenarios, and verification artifacts with engineering oversight of quality, evaluations, and safeguards
• Establish cross-functional benchmarks for feature-complete test coverage
• Instrument CI time, flake rate, and critical-journey coverage; report on them and remove major bottlenecks
• Provide technical leadership across the platform team and four product teams
• Participate in on-call and incident response for pipeline and test infrastructure
• Act as escalation point when CI or environments fail and turn incidents into lasting fixes
• Build alignment through written proposals and decision records with product and engineering teams
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards through others

Requirements:

• Experienced engineer in developer infrastructure, test automation, or platform engineering
• Record of leading technical work across more than one team and shaping engineering standards through code review and documentation
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Terraform, Docker or Kubernetes, and Postgres
• Comfortable working inside a large Rails application with React and mobile clients
• Experience building and owning a CI/CD pipeline
• Automated unit and end-to-end test coverage experience used by an entire engineering organization
• Deep experience with Playwright or an equivalent
• Production experience building systems to run automated tests and CI for web, iOS, and Android
• Production experience with coding agents and LLM tooling for test generation or verification
• Experience improving how a team adopts coding agents and LLM tooling
• Ability to explain trade-offs among customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, and reliability in writing
• Ability to work in a remote and asynchronous company
• Ability to mentor senior and intermediate engineers
• Must reside in and perform work from Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, or Wisconsin
• Must be willing to participate in on-call and incident response
• HopSkipDrive operates as a drug-free workplace

Benefits:

• Equity stock options for every full-time employee
• Flexible vacation
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k)
• FSA
• Opportunity to work for a uniquely positioned, VC-backed company with significant upside potential
• Remote work