Remote
Engineering Manager, Platform & DevOps
About this role
About HopSkipDrive At HopSkipDrive, our mission is to create opportunity for all through mobility. 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.
We continue to grow rapidly — earning a spot on the Inc. 5000 list numerous times and the Deloitte 500 Fast-Growing Technology list. HopSkipDrive is a Series D company and has raised $100M to date. How we work We use AI every day, and not as a productivity add-on. It's woven into how we work at every level. We're rethinking how work gets done, who does what, and what a small team can accomplish. If you've already built AI into how you work, you'll hit the ground running.
If you haven't, you'll need to be ready to learn fast and work differently than you have before. We're remote-first, mission-driven, and built for people who want to do work that matters with people who hold a high bar. Who We Are 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. This role will: Lead and grow a team of Platform and DevOps engineers. Set direction, coach, hire, and stay hands-on for part of your week. Own our AWS platform end-to-end: infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, CI/CD, environments, observability, incident response, and cloud cost. Lead the practice of Agentic Software Development Lifecycle (ASDLC) to ensure these AI tools remain safe, aligned, and continuously improving.
Make automated verification standard by enabling product teams to release with embedded tests across web and mobile. Deliver deployment environments and CI pipelines that keep pace with agent-generated change. Measure and improve system delivery, including baseline time in CI, code review, and QA. Build alignment in writing with product and engineering leaders on platform roadmap and investment trade-offs. Who You Are You are a hands-on Platform or DevOps engineer who has stepped into leadership.