Senior Platform Engineer
BestowLife Insurance company
United StatesSenior
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About the role
TL;DR
Enhance platform scalability and reliability through infrastructure automation and developer tooling.
- •Bestow is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own the implementation of technical projects that enhance platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience.
- •You will automate infrastructure, build internal tools, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust solutions.
- •Key Responsibilities Implement and evolve infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
- •Automate and monitor Kubernetes-based platforms and CI/CD pipelines.
- •Build CLI tools, shared libraries, and scripts to accelerate development workflows.
- •Implement dashboards, alerts, and runbooks for services owned by platform engineering.
- •Participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
- •Requirements 5+ years of professional experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
- •Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi and CI/CD workflows.
- •Experience in at least one scripting or programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Bash, TypeScript).
- •Hands-on experience utilizing AI agents for engineering tasks.
- •Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
Required skills
TerraformKubernetesCI/CDDockerGoPythonBashTypeScriptGoogle CloudAWSAzureAnthropic API
Nice-to-have skills
Pulumi
Domain expertise
insurtech
Benefits & perks
Competitive salary and equity, Flexible paid time off, Parental leave programs, 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance, Lifestyle stipend, Flexible work-from-home policy, Remote and WFH options
Tech stack
TerraformPulumiKubernetesDockerGoPythonBashTypeScriptCI/CDGoogle CloudAWSAzure