[Remote] Platform Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bold Penguin is a digital broker for commercial insurance that uses digital distribution, wholesale capabilities, and AI-driven insights. The Platform Engineer will build and automate foundational services, internal workflows, ephemeral environments, CI/CD tooling, and data pipelines while improving platform speed, reliability, security, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the automation of manual tasks and managing large-scale infrastructure across cloud environments
• Support the automation of software delivery processes to improve release speed, safety, and reliability
• Apply security and compliance best practices within platform workflows and data processes
• Help implement monitoring and observability for automated workflows and pipelines
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand needs and build workflow automations
• Research and propose tools and approaches that improve platform capabilities
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Skills

• This is a fully remote role, with the exception of onboarding and optional in-office events
• 3–5 years of relevant engineering experience
• Strong software engineering background (Python or Ruby preferred), with experience developing, containerizing, and debugging applications within distributed, cloud-native architectures
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, particularly AWS, with hands-on experience building cloud-based environments and managing container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions)
• Experience building and maintaining large-scale Infrastructure as Code deployments (AWS CDK, Terraform)
• Experience with monitoring and observability concepts and tools (DataDog, Grafana)
• Understanding of security, compliance, and governance best practices
• Must be able to sit/stand/walk for prolonged periods of time, (up to 8 hours per day) at a desk working on a computer
• Must be able to use standard office equipment for extended periods of time, including but not limited to, a mouse, keyboard, phone and video conferencing
• Experience with database technologies (SQL, PostgreSQL, AWS RDS)
• Experience in data engineering (Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, Snowflake)

Benefits

• This is a fully remote role, with the exception of onboarding and optional in-office events.
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Flexible PTO Policy
• 401(k) with a company match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Parental Leave
• Disability and Life Benefits
• Great SLACK channels for work and play
• Video conference and regular all-hands "Waddles"

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