Guardian

Guardian

Head of Platform Engineering - Control Plane

New York · Full-time

No sponsorship$152k-$250kDetected 14 days ago
DynamoDBAWSCI/CDDevOpsPlatform EngineeringRESTMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AILLMOpsMLOpsIncident ResponsePerformance ManagementIntellectual PropertyLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • About Guardian: Every day, Guardian provides Americans the security they deserve through our insurance and wealth management products and services.
  • Our commitments rest on a strong financial foundation, which at year-end 2018 included $8.5 billion in capital and $1.6 billion in operating income.
  • For more information, please visit guardianlife.com or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.

Responsibilities

  • You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and technology partners to develop and integrate automation solutions that drive business growth, improve customer experiences, and reduce operational costs.
  • At Guardian, you'll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals.
  • Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, management or a related field.
  • Experience leading platform, infrastructure, developer platform, AI/ML platform, security platform, or other reusable enterprise engineering capabilities.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise governance, security, risk, compliance, and operational controls required to safely run AI or data-intensive systems in production.
  • Strong communication and influence skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical topics for senior stakeholders and align teams around platform standards.
  • Experience with agentic AI systems, LLM platforms, model gateways, tool/action gateways, agent registries, evaluation frameworks, or AI developer tooling.
  • Familiarity with AI governance patterns such as prompt-injection defense, PII handling, output filtering, risk tiering, model/tool allow-lists, HITL controls, and audit trails.
  • Experience with AWS-based platform engineering, including services such as Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, EKS, IAM, CloudWatch, and related DevOps tooling.
  • Experience designing or operating multi-tenant platforms with RBAC/ABAC, entitlement models, service accounts, policy-as-code, and secure cross-account or cross-environment access patterns.
  • Knowledge of observability, tracing, telemetry, cost attribution, and platform-level operational dashboards for enterprise-scale systems.
  • Experience working in regulated environments where security, compliance, data residency, retention, and auditability are first-class platform requirements.

Compensation

  • $152,290.00 - $250,195.00
  • The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position.
  • The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate.
  • In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.

Benefits

  • Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.
  • Excellent medical, dental, supplemental health, life and vision coverage for you and your dependents with no wait period
  • Life and disability insurance

Company info

  • Guardian is an equal opportunity employer.
  • All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
  • Guardian® is a registered trademark of the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America.
  • application process, Guardian may use artificial intelligence tools ("AI Tools") to automate the sorting and filtering of information provided by applicants as part of its preliminary screening.

Equal opportunity

  • Accommodations
  • Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
  • Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.
  • If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MyHR@glic.com.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • In order to be a successful applicant. you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship.
Apply directly at Guardian →Create a free account for alerts like thisView Guardian immigration profile

This listing is sourced directly from Guardian's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.