Senior Platform Engineer - Bestow

About Bestow

Life insurance is one of the world's most important products, and Bestow is a leading vertical technology platform modernizing the industry. We unify the fragmented, legacy value chain, enabling carriers to launch products in weeks instead of years, powered by AI and automation. Backed by leading investors (Goldman Sachs, Hedosophia, NEA, Valar, 8VC), our team moves with precision, purpose, and heart to deliver lasting impact.

About the Team

The engineering team is responsible for all technology powering Bestow and the Bestow Platform. We support our employees, consumers, and enterprise partners by delivering reliable, secure, and scalable systems. This role reports to the Manager of Engineering and is open to remote employees in the U.S. (48 contiguous states only).

What You'll Do

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll own the implementation of technical projects that improve our platform’s scalability, reliability, and developer experience. You’ll independently execute scoped initiatives, automate infrastructure, and build internal tools that help product teams move faster and safer.

Develop and Maintain Cloud Infrastructure

• 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.

Support Developer Productivity

• 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.

Contribute to Platform Resilience

• 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.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of professional experience working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Familiar with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi and understand CI/CD workflows.
• Write clean, maintainable code and have experience in at least one scripting or programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Bash, TypeScript).
• 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.
• Worked with containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Understand version control workflows and regularly participate in code reviews.
• Strong communicator, take ownership of your work, and collaborate well with others.
• Eager to grow and take on more architectural and operational responsibilities.