DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Counterpart, a modern management & professional liability insurance platform, as a DevOps Engineer and contribute to the infrastructure, dynamic data services, and tooling that shape the future of insurance. You will bridge the gap between Product, Insurance, and Data, architecting the infrastructure and ensuring production readiness. Responsibilities include evolving the underlying infrastructure architecture, building and managing infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS, developing and maintaining observability solutions, collaborating on infrastructure solution design, and implementing infrastructure security best practices. This role requires 4+ years of AWS experience, 3+ years with Kubernetes and Python, 2+ years with relational databases, and experience with Terraform and Helm. Fluency in automation, comfort with application code, effective communication, and remote team experience are also essential. Counterpart offers a fully distributed work environment, language class sponsorships, paid vacation and time off, parental leave, computer reimbursement, and a competitive salary.

Requirements

• A passion for infrastructure and developer enablement
• A love of building and experimentation
• 4+ years of experience with AWS
• 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes
• 3+ years of experience with Python
• 2+ years of experience with relational databases
• Experience with Terraform, and Helm
• Fluency in automation
• Comfort digging in to application and service code
• Effective communication & documentation skills
• Experience working on a remote team

Responsibilities

• Be a part of one or more of these objectives
• System ArchitectureEvolve the underlying infrastructure architecture that supports our core insurance platforms and services. Partner with engineering teams to ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency, while making thoughtful trade-offs to meet business and technical goals
• Infrastructure OrchestrationBuild, manage, and optimize infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS services. Automate provisioning, scaling, and deployment processes to ensure our environments are consistent, reproducible, and able to support rapid feature delivery
• Production Readiness (Logging, Observability, CI/CD)Develop and maintain comprehensive observability solutions—including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting—to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, ensuring quick, reliable, and secure delivery to production
• Solution Ideation and DesignCollaborate with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to design infrastructure solutions that meet evolving needs. Contribute ideas, evaluate trade-offs, and experiment with new technologies to enable faster, safer, and more resilient delivery of features
• Platform SecurityImplement and maintain best practices for infrastructure security, including identity and access management, network segmentation, vulnerability scanning, and compliance monitoring. Partner with the security team to proactively address threats and maintain customer trust

Benefits

• Work from Anywhere - Counterpart is a fully distributed company, meaning there is no office. We allow employees to work from wherever they do their best work, of course prioritizing meetings that often happen in US time zones
• Language Classes - We sponsor up to $100 per calendar year to be used towards language classes to help support your English language skills
• Paid Vacation and Time Off
• Parental Leave - Development Partners will be eligible for unpaid Parental Leave to bond with a newborn, newly-adopted, or newly placed child. Under this policy, development partners and independent contractors will be eligible for up to 8 weeks of unpaid parental leave. Any time off will be subject to approval and must be requested at least 45 days in advance
• Computer - We reimburse you for your locally procured Macbook Pro. If you are still with the company after one year, it is yours to keep!