[Remote] Senior Platform Engineer - Infrastructure (USA)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kalepa is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer for its infrastructure team to build and maintain the infrastructure and tooling that power its core platform. The role focuses on CI/CD, operational automation, security and compliance, reliability, cost optimization, observability, incident response, and scalable cloud systems.

Responsibilities

• You’ll maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate operational workflows, and ensure we stay secure and compliant to the industry standards
• Your day-to-day responsibilities will include improving infrastructure performance and reliability, monitoring and optimizing system cost, and collaborating with engineering teams to standardize environments and deployment patterns
• You’ll help to maintain observability and incident response processes, and ensure the scalability of our cloud-based systems as we continue to grow
• You'll collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers to build scalable backend solutions as we continue to grow

Skills

• Have 5+ years of software engineering or dev-ops experience, ideally with time spent working on CI/CD pipelines, security, performance and infrastructure
• Embody hustle and grit, you're excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it
• Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight
• Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop
• Thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before
• Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
• Know Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds
• Have experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments
• Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
• Know terraform, IaaC best practices, Docker or similar tools
• Experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems

Benefits

• Significant equity options package
• 20 days of PTO a year
• Global team offsites
• Gym reimbursement
• Phone reimbursement
• Student stipend

Company Overview

Kalepa is Professional Grade AI for insurance, trusted by top-tier insurers to accelerate profitable growth. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.kalepa.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Kalepa has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024, 1 in 2023, 1 in 2022, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.