Senior AI Platform Engineer — Remote (US)

Root Insurance; United States; Remote; USD 189,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive bonus

Equity offering

Remote-friendly across US

Job summary

Root Insurance is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the AI Platform to define technical direction and lead cross-team initiatives that turn AI ambitions into durable infrastructure. You will shape platform architecture, set standards, and drive multi-quarter plans across security, observability, and cost management.

The role requires 7+ years of experience, 3+ years of leadership, and deep cloud expertise (AWS, Terraform). Remote-friendly across the US with equity and competitive bonus.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a software engineer.
• 3+ years leading software teams or major technical initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and deliver results across multiple teams or a meaningful engineering domain.
• Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, Terraform, secure software delivery, and production operations.
• Strong systems-design judgment across reliability, observability, security, cost, and long-term maintainability.
• Experience guiding AI/LLM platform or application architecture and evaluating novel technical approaches responsibly.
• Ability to drive cross-team implementation decisions, resolve ambiguity, and communicate complex topics to senior leaders.
• A record of shaping technical roadmaps, unlocking long-term value, and developing engineers beyond an immediate team.
• Excellent collaboration and influence skills with engineering and cross-functional leaders.

Responsibilities

• Define what Root must make true for AI to become a trusted, company-wide capability—and translate that vision into multi-quarter technical direction.
• Lead cross-team initiatives that turn AI strategy into durable platform architecture, shared services, and operating models.
• Make hard technical tradeoffs that let teams move quickly without compromising security, reliability, observability, cost, or long-term maintainability.
• Unblock critical work across AI Platform, product engineering, data, security, and infrastructure by aligning decisions across systems and domains.
• Establish the standards and feedback loops that help Root monitor, govern, and continuously improve AI-enabled systems.
• Anticipate the next constraints before they become blockers, then drive the technical investments that unlock the company’s next stage of AI adoption.
• Multiply impact by developing engineers and technical leaders through clear architecture, strong mentorship, and excellent systems judgment.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Cloud infrastructure

Security best practices

Observability

Cross-team collaboration

AI/LLM platform experience

Job description

Root Insurance is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the AI Platform to define technical direction and lead cross-team initiatives that turn AI ambitions into durable infrastructure. You will shape platform architecture, set standards, and drive multi-quarter plans across security, observability, and cost management.

The role requires 7+ years of experience, 3+ years of leadership, and deep cloud expertise (AWS, Terraform). Remote-friendly across the US with equity and competitive bonus.