Staff Software Engineer, Quality Infrastructure

HopSkipDrive is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Quality Infrastructure to build infrastructure that helps engineers test and ship safely. The role leads CI/CD, ephemeral environments, and AI-assisted testing and verification, while improving test coverage, reliability, and engineering practices across platform and product teams.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Establish cross-functional benchmarks for defining feature-complete test coverage to evaluate testing practices alongside product teams
• Instrument time in CI, flake rate, and coverage of critical journeys; report on them and remove the biggest bottlenecks first
• 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

Requirements:

• 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 mentor senior and intermediate engineers and raise the bar through others
• You are direct, low-ego, customer-minded, and human-centric