Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Quanata, a company focused on context-based insurance solutions, as a Platform Engineer. You will design and develop platform architecture, evaluate new technologies, collaborate with development teams, and develop automation and deployment processes. The role also involves implementing monitoring and logging solutions, contributing to developer training, troubleshooting issues, and implementing security measures. You will participate in on-call rotation and promote a supportive culture. Quanata offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development. The position is remote-first, allowing you to work from anywhere in the U.S. (excluding territories), with flexible hours.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science or equivalent relevant professional experience
• Eight or more years of experience in platform engineering or developer experience tooling
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Crossplane experience

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents
• A Headspace app subscription
• Monthly wellness allowance
• A 401(k) Plan with a company match
• One-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion
• Our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day
• 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
• 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