Lead Platform Engineer - Internal DevX & Cloud

American Family Insurance; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

401(k) plan

Pension plan

Annual incentive

Paid time off

Job summary

American Family Insurance seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud platforms on AWS and GCP, with a focus on Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and Backstage-based developer experience. You will enable secure, scalable delivery by shaping IaC, pipelines, observability, and operational discipline across engineering teams.

The role is a flex office/hybrid position with minimum 10 days per month in Boston, Madison, or Denver; candidates must reside within the specified radius

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and managing a DevX platform, preferably with Backstage.io.
• Strong focus on developer experience and self-service tooling.
• Experience building custom Backstage plugins using TS/Node/React.
• Ability to configure Backstage Catalog and Scaffolder templates.
• Proficient with AWS and GCP cloud services, including VPC/IAM/S3 and managed Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate cloud platforms across AWS and GCP.
• Lead IaC with Terraform; use Crossplane for unified API access.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD) and Artifactory integration.
• Implement observability and SRE practices with Datadog.
• Develop software tooling and templates to improve developer experience.

Skills

Backstage.io

Backstage plugins

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Backstage Scaffolder

Cloud (AWS)

Cloud (GCP)

VPC

IAM

S3

Kubernetes (EKS/GKE)

Terraform

Crossplane

Docker

GitLab CI/CD

JFrog Artifactory

Python

Go

Bash

Datadog

SRE

REST/GraphQL

Git

Argo CD

Flux

DevSecOps

Tools

Terraform

Crossplane

Kubernetes

Backstage

Job description

American Family Insurance seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud platforms on AWS and GCP, with a focus on Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and Backstage-based developer experience. You will enable secure, scalable delivery by shaping IaC, pipelines, observability, and operational discipline across engineering teams.

The role is a flex office/hybrid position with minimum 10 days per month in Boston, Madison, or Denver; candidates must reside within the specified radius