Senior Cloud Platform Engineer [Remote-US] New

Quanata, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Quanata, a forward-thinking company focused on context-based insurance solutions, is looking for a Platform Engineer. This role entails developing platform architecture and automating deployment processes, ensuring reliability and security in the company's cloud infrastructure. Candidates must possess a strong technical background and excellent communication skills. They offer competitive salaries with a variety of benefits, including professional development support and remote work opportunities.

Benefits

401(k) Plan with company match

Health, dental, vision benefits

Paid Time Off (4 weeks)

Professional development budget

Work from Home Equipment stipend

Parental leave

LinkedIn Learning subscriptions

Qualifications

• 8+ years in platform engineering or development tooling.
• Experience with consumer facing websites and distributed systems.
• Proficient in Go, Python, or Bash languages.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop platform architecture and infrastructure.
• Evaluate technologies for platform features and system reliability.
• Collaborate with teams on IAC and compliance.

Skills

Platform Engineering

Troubleshooting

Automation

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

GitLab

GitHub

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

remote

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About Us

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com

Our Team

From data scientists and actuaries to engineers, designers and marketers, we’re a world class team of tech-minded professionals from some of the best companies in Silicon Valley, and around the world. We’ve come together to create the context-based insurance solutions and experiences of the future. We know that the key to our success isn't just about nailing the technology—it’s hiring the talented people who will help us continue to make a quantifiable impact.

The role

Quanata is seeking a Platform Engineer to join us in providing a suite of solutions that enable our product development and engineering organization to create, and deliver Quanata’s technical offerings. Our team focuses on enabling software engineers to reliably and rapidly deliver software, and manage the company’s cloud infrastructure.

• Design and develop the platform architecture, including infrastructure, networking, and software components.
• Seek out and evaluate new technologies and make recommendations for their use as new platform features, capabilities and patterns, and improve system reliability.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure their applications are optimized for deployment in an IAC environment, and meet security and compliance needs.
• Develop and maintain automation and deployment processes to enable and improve developer experience and efficiency.
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions to ensure the platform is performing at its best and identify areas for improvement.
• Encourage developer autonomy and self-service by contributing to developer training and documentation for Platform products.
• Promote a supportive culture focused on building reliable systems and processes based on established best practices in the industry.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in the platform, including performance and scalability issues.
• Implement security and compliance measures to ensure the platform meets regulatory requirements.
• Participate in on-call rotation to provide support for internal developer services.

About you

• Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science or equivalent relevant professional experience and;
• Eight or more years of experience in platform engineering or developer experience tooling to include:
• Five or more years of experience working with consumer facing websites and technologies.
• Three or more years of experience working with distributed systems.
• Experience and understanding of CI/CD processes and tooling such as GitLab, Github, or Jenkins.
• Experience and understanding of Go, Python, or Bash languages
• Experience and understanding of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Experienced enabling and troubleshooting containerized workloads in ECS, Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
• Experience working in GCP or AWS.
• Enjoy working on infrastructure but engage in understanding your customer needs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to contribute during code reviews, and capture tasks.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and great attention to detail.

Bonus Points:

Crossplane experience

Salary: $190,000 to $255,000*

*Please note that the final salary offered will be determined based on the selected candidate's skills, and experience, as well as the internal salary structure at Quanata. Our aim is to offer a competitive and equitable compensation package that reflects the candidate's expertise and contributions to our organization.

• Benefits : We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits.These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.
• Work from Home Equipment : Given our virtual environment— in order to set you up for success at home, a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. Also, our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day.
• Paid Time Off: All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment. New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.
• Personal and Professional Development: We’re committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally. All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
• Location : We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. For most positions,occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required. Some positions might require travel per the job description provided to the employee.Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.
• Hours : We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.

Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This role is employed by Quanata, LLC which is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.

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