[Hiring] Engineering Manager, Platform & DevOps @HopSkipDrive

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• You are a hands-on Platform or DevOps engineer who has stepped into leadership.
• You have managed engineers and still find time to ship.
• You have run a team through real on-call and incident response, platform growth, and AI/agentic transformation.
• You have deep knowledge in AWS, infrastructure as code (Terraform), Kubernetes, and Postgres, with production experience operating a large web and mobile application surface area.
• You have experience putting coding agents and LLM tooling to work in a real software lifecycle: CI integration, evaluation, guardrails, and cost control.
• You have a grounded view on CI/CD, know what a regression suite platform should cover, how to keep it fast and trusted, and how to help engineers move from manual to automated testing.
• You are fluent in delivery and reliability metrics and able to use them to coach a team rather than rank people.
• You are a clear writer who builds alignment through proposals and decision records in a remote and asynchronous company.
• You are curious and experimental with new tools, with a track record of independently adopting generative AI to accelerate your own work and your team's.
• You are direct, low-ego, customer-minded, and human-centric.

Requirements

• The salary range for this role is $180,000.00 - $205,000.00.
• This position is remote and, as such, compensation will ultimately be in line with the location in which the position is filled.
• Final compensation for this role will be determined by several factors such as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skill set, certifications, and specific work location.
• The total compensation package for this role also includes equity stock options.

Benefits

• Equity for every full-time employee.
• Flexible vacation.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) and FSA.
• Opportunity to work for a uniquely positioned, VC-backed company in a hugely attractive space with significant upside potential.

Company Description

HopSkipDrive is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected class.

This is a fully remote role. Candidates must reside in and perform work from one of the following states: AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OK, OR, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, or WI. We are not currently considering candidates who will perform work from any other state.