Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bold Penguin is a digital broker for commercial insurance that uses digital distribution, wholesale capabilities, and AI-driven insights. The Platform Engineer will build and automate foundational services, internal workflows, ephemeral environments, CI/CD tooling, and data pipelines while improving platform speed, reliability, security, and observability.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the automation of manual tasks and managing large-scale infrastructure across cloud environments
- Support the automation of software delivery processes to improve release speed, safety, and reliability
- Apply security and compliance best practices within platform workflows and data processes
- Help implement monitoring and observability for automated workflows and pipelines
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand needs and build workflow automations
- Research and propose tools and approaches that improve platform capabilities
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned
Skills
- This is a fully remote role, with the exception of onboarding and optional in-office events
- 3–5 years of relevant engineering experience
- Strong software engineering background (Python or Ruby preferred), with experience developing, containerizing, and debugging applications within distributed, cloud-native architectures
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms, particularly AWS, with hands-on experience building cloud-based environments and managing container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions)
- Experience building and maintaining large-scale Infrastructure as Code deployments (AWS CDK, Terraform)
- Experience with monitoring and observability concepts and tools (DataDog, Grafana)
- Understanding of security, compliance, and governance best practices
- Must be able to sit/stand/walk for prolonged periods of time, (up to 8 hours per day) at a desk working on a computer
- Must be able to use standard office equipment for extended periods of time, including but not limited to, a mouse, keyboard, phone and video conferencing
- Experience with database technologies (SQL, PostgreSQL, AWS RDS)
- Experience in data engineering (Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, Snowflake)
Benefits
- This is a fully remote role, with the exception of onboarding and optional in-office events.
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Flexible PTO Policy
- 401(k) with a company match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Parental Leave
- Disability and Life Benefits
- Great SLACK channels for work and play
- Video conference and regular all-hands "Waddles"
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