Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bestow is a vertical technology platform that provides infrastructure for life insurers, using AI and automation to modernize the insurance value chain. The Senior Platform Engineer will implement technical projects that improve platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience, while automating infrastructure and building internal tools. The role also supports developer productivity, platform resilience, incident response, and architectural improvements.
Responsibilities
- Implement and evolve infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform or Pulumi
- Automate and monitor our Kubernetes-based platform and CI/CD pipelines
- Contribute to infrastructure tooling that improves repeatability, safety, and visibility
- Build CLI tools, shared libraries, and scripts to accelerate development workflows
- Participate in resolving developer friction by improving build/test/deploy loops
- Help define standards for service configuration, secrets management, and app-level observability
- Implement dashboards, alerts, and runbooks for services owned by platform engineering
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and follow-up improvements
- Participate in a primary on-call weekly rotation to maintain system reliability, respond to platform incidents, and perform blameless root-cause analysis
- Propose and prototype changes to improve availability, scalability, and cost efficiency
Skills
- • 5+ years of professional experience working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- • You're familiar with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi and understand CI/CD workflows
- • You write clean, maintainable code and have experience in at least one scripting or programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Bash, TypeScript)
- • You have hands-on experience utilizing AI agents (e.g., Claude Code) for engineering tasks, demonstrating an ability to effectively direct agents through clear context, explicit constraints, and deliberate planning
- • You've worked with containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
- • You understand version control workflows and regularly participate in code reviews
- • You're a strong communicator, take ownership of your work, and collaborate well with others
- • You're eager to grow and take on more architectural and operational responsibilities
Benefits
- Equity based on role
- Flexible paid time off
- Parental leave programs
- 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
- Flexible work-from-home policy and remote work options
- A beautiful, state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum, for those who prefer an office setting
- Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
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