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Senior Platform Engineer

Bestow

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Platform EngineeringKubernetesTerraformPulumiCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeDeveloper ProductivityObservabilityIncident ResponseAI Agents

About the role

Role: Senior Platform Engineer

Own and deliver technical projects that improve the Bestow Platform’s scalability, reliability, and developer experience.

What you’ll do

  • Cloud infrastructure
    • Implement and evolve infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or Pulumi.
    • Automate and monitor the Kubernetes-based platform and CI/CD pipelines.
    • Contribute tooling that improves repeatability, safety, and visibility.
  • Developer productivity
    • Build internal CLI tools, shared libraries, and scripts to accelerate workflows.
    • Reduce developer friction by improving build/test/deploy loops.
    • Help define standards for service configuration, secrets management, and app-level observability.
  • Platform resilience
    • Create dashboards, alerts, and runbooks for platform-owned services.
    • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements.
    • Propose/prototype changes to improve availability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

As you grow

  • Take ownership of more complex systems.
  • Influence architectural choices and team processes.
  • Apply a systems-thinking approach with a focus on automation.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or Pulumi) and understanding CI/CD workflows.
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable code and experience with at least one language/scripting option (e.g., Go, Python, Bash, TypeScript).
  • Hands-on experience using AI agents (e.g., Claude Code) for engineering tasks, with the ability to direct agents effectively via clear context.

Location / Work mode

  • Remote in the U.S. (48 contiguous states only).

About Bestow

Bestow is a vertical technology platform for the life insurance industry, helping carriers modernize and launch products faster. It unifies fragmented, legacy value chains with an AI-and-automation powered platform and infrastructure that scales across major insurers. The company is backed by prominent investors and trusted by large carriers.

Scraped 8/5/2026