Staff Software Engineer, Quality Infrastructure

HopSkipDrive

. Lead development of infrastructure for safe testing and shipping through CI/CD, ephemeral environments, and AI-assisted testing and verification .

Posted 10/12/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $195,000 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in developing and leading infrastructure for CI/CD, test automation, and AI-assisted testing. Proven ability to mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, and improve team practices across multiple product teams.

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CI/CD Pipeline OwnershipAWS ProficiencyTerraform ExperienceTest Automation with PlaywrightTechnical Leadership

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Hard Skills

Test AutomationInfrastructure DevelopmentAI WorkflowsUnit TestingEnd-to-End TestingCoding AgentsLLM ToolingFeature-Complete Test CoverageIncident ResponseCode Review

Soft Skills

MentoringTechnical CommunicationCross-Functional Collaboration

Tools & Technologies

DockerKubernetesPostgresRailsReact

Industry Keywords

Developer InfrastructurePlatform EngineeringAutomated TestingRemote WorkAsynchronous Communication

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidAWSDockeriOSKubernetesPostgresReactRuby on RailsTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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