Engineering Manager, Platform & DevOps
The Engineering Manager, Platform & DevOps at HopSkipDrive will lead and expand a team responsible for developing and maintaining the company's cloud infrastructure, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and AI coding-agent tools. This role is integral to ensuring the platform's scalability, reliability, and security, directly impacting the efficiency of HopSkipDrive's engineering operations.
In this position, the manager will oversee the end-to-end management of the AWS platform, including infrastructure as code, Kubernetes orchestration, CI/CD processes, environment configurations, observability, incident response, and cloud cost optimization. A key responsibility is to lead the practice of Agentic Software Development Lifecycle (ASDLC), ensuring that AI tools remain safe, aligned, and continuously improving. The role also involves enabling product teams to implement automated verification by embedding tests across web and mobile platforms, and measuring and improving system delivery metrics such as CI time, code review efficiency, and quality assurance processes.
Candidates should have a strong background in AWS, infrastructure as code (preferably Terraform), Kubernetes, and Postgres, with hands-on experience operating large-scale web and mobile applications. Experience in integrating coding agents and large language model (LLM) tooling into the software development lifecycle, including CI integration, evaluation, guardrails, and cost control, is essential. A solid understanding of CI/CD principles, automated testing frameworks, and delivery and reliability metrics is required. Excellent written communication skills are necessary to build alignment through proposals and decision records in a remote and asynchronous work environment.
The compensation for this role includes a salary range of $180,000 to $205,000, with the final amount determined by factors such as relevant work experience, skill set, certifications, and specific work location. In addition to the salary, the total compensation package offers equity stock options, flexible vacation, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, 401(k), and flexible spending accounts (FSA).
HopSkipDrive is a mission-driven technology company that partners with school districts to provide safe, fast, and simple supplemental student transportation. The company operates in over 20 states and has facilitated more than five million rides. As a remote-first organization, HopSkipDrive offers a flexible work environment and is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.