Kalepa
Senior Platform Engineer - Infrastructure (USA)
New York, NY · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$165k-$255kDetected 105 days ago
PythonDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentDockerTerraformCI/CDDevOpsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningLLMsA/B TestingIncident ResponseCommunicationUnderwriting
About the role
- For people who want to work on AI that matters, in a sector where correctness, trust, and real-world impact count, Kalepa is just getting started.
- Kalepa is backed by leading investors such as IA Ventures and Inspired Capital, and our team brings experience from Facebook, Palantir, Google, Amazon, McKinsey, Mastercard, and Uber.
- We are looking for smart engineers who love to code, seek challenging problems, and appreciate recognition for excellent work.
Responsibilities
- Deliver Customer Impact
- We're building something exceptional, and that requires exceptional people and ideas. We have a high bar but we reward excellence with rapid growth. If you're the best at what you do, you'll thrive here.
- to build the AI operating system for decision-making across insurance.
- You'll maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate operational workflows, and ensure we stay secure and compliant to the industry standards.
- You'll help to maintain observability and incident response processes, and ensure the scalability of our cloud-based systems as we continue to grow.
- You'll collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, ML, and DevOps engineers to build scalable backend solutions as we continue to grow. We're a small team where individual contributions have an outsized impact on both our technology and our business.
- Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.
- Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
Nice to have
- experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems
- Have 5+ years of software engineering or dev-ops experience, ideally with time spent working on CI/CD pipelines, security, performance and infrastructure.
- Embody hustle and grit, you're excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it.
- Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop.
- Know Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds.
- Have experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
- Are comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.
- Know terraform, IaaC best practices, Docker or similar tools.
Skills
- software that can read, reason, decide, and act inside real workflows and operate over long-time horizons.
- Kalepa begins by augmenting professionals with the tools to succeed at their jobs.
- That earns us the right to learn from real decisions, capture decision traces, and automate what can be automated successfully over time.
- Our products are already in production with leading insurers, driving measurable outcomes and expanding across functions.
Compensation
- Competitive salary (based on experience level)*.
- The salary range listed is an estimate and will vary based on a variety of factors.
Benefits
- Significant equity options package.
- 20 days of PTO a year.
- Gym reimbursement.
- Phone reimbursement.
- Student stipend.
- Speed of learning is our advantage.
Company info
- Many organizations have a dusty list of corporate values that no one ever follows.
- Kalepa is not one of those companies.
- Our values are designed to unlock the potential of our employees.
- We're obsessed with customer impact. Every feature, every line of code, every decision is measured against one question: does this help insurers make better decisions? If it doesn't drive speed, accuracy, or profitability for our customers, we don't build it.
- Global team offsites.
This listing is sourced directly from Kalepa's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.