Senior Platform Engineer

🕒 August 5

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Bestow

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

💳 Fintech

Consulting • Healthcare • Fintech

Bestow is a leading life insurance SaaS platform provider that offers innovative technology solutions for life and annuity insurance carriers. By providing tools such as digital applications, customizable underwriting engines, and comprehensive customer portals, Bestow helps streamline the entire insurance process from quoting to policy administration. The company focuses on enhancing the speed and efficiency of insurance operations, enabling carriers to launch new products swiftly and optimize their customer service capabilities.

📋 Description

• Own implementation of technical projects improving platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience • Independently execute scoped initiatives and automate infrastructure • Build internal tools that help product teams move faster and safer • Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code • Automate and monitor the Kubernetes-based platform and CI/CD pipelines • Improve infrastructure repeatability, safety, and visibility • Build CLI tools, shared libraries, and scripts to accelerate development workflows • Improve build, test, and deployment loops • Help define standards for service configuration, secrets management, and application observability • Implement dashboards, alerts, and runbooks for platform-owned services • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and follow-up improvements • Propose and prototype changes improving availability, scalability, and cost efficiency • Collaborate with platform engineers and cross-functional stakeholders • Influence architectural choices and team processes as responsibilities grow • Report to the Manager of Engineering

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience working with cloud infrastructure • Familiarity with GCP, AWS, or Azure • Familiarity with Terraform or Pulumi • Understanding of CI/CD workflows • Clean, maintainable coding ability • Experience with at least one scripting or programming language such as Go, Python, Bash, or TypeScript • Hands-on experience utilizing AI agents such as Claude Code for engineering tasks • Ability to direct AI agents through clear context, explicit constraints, and deliberate planning • Experience with containerization such as Docker • Experience with Kubernetes • Understanding of version control workflows • Regular participation in code reviews • Strong communication and collaboration skills • Ownership of work • Eagerness to grow into architectural and operational responsibilities • Must reside in the contiguous 48 United States • Must be able to satisfy U.S. employment eligibility requirements

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Equity • Bonus • Flexible paid time off • Parental leave programs • 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance • Lifestyle stipend supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing • Flexible work-from-home policy • Remote and WFH options • Optional access to a state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum • Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives • Growth opportunities