Staff Software Engineer, Platform

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Responsibilities

• ▹Build the release and configuration layer of the platform, shaping how software moves from build to production
• ▹Design and implement scalable release workflows and tooling, creating reusable abstractions that standardize how services are built, validated and deployed
• ▹Operate as a technical leader within the Platform Engineering Zone, collaborating with CI and infrastructure owners
• ▹Build systems for release orchestration, including artifact promotion, environment-aware deployments and release candidate validation
• ▹Develop self-service tooling and paved paths that make safe, reliable deployment patterns the default
• ▹Identify systemic issues in release and environment management and implement durable, platform-level solutions
• ▹Build automated validation, safety checks and rollback mechanisms directly into release workflows
• ▹Design environment and configuration management systems ensuring consistency, traceability and reproducibility across dev, staging and production
• ▹Continuously improve release reliability, scalability and developer experience
• ▹Build observability into the release lifecycle, enabling visibility into deployment health, performance and failure modes
• ▹Own the last mile of the platform, where build artifacts become production systems

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of experience building platform systems, infrastructure, or developer-facing tooling
• ▹Strong software engineering skills (TypeScript or similar), with a track record of building internal tools, services, or frameworks
• ▹Experience leading or heavily contributing to shared engineering platforms
• ▹Deep familiarity with CI/CD systems as platforms, having built on top of them or extended them programmatically
• ▹Strong understanding of containerized systems (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern deployment architectures
• ▹Experience building systems on AWS, especially in multi-environment, production-scale contexts
• ▹Strong understanding of release systems: artifact management, promotion strategies, rollback mechanisms and deployment safety
• ▹Proven ability to identify systemic problems and turn them into scalable tooling or platform improvements
• ▹Experience working across platform domains (CI, infrastructure, SRE), contributing to systems you don't directly own
• ▹Focus on developer experience, with a track record of reducing friction through automation and self-service tooling
• ▹A builder's mindset: thinks in terms of systems, abstractions and leverage, and leads through implementation
• ▹Deep curiosity in agentic, spec-driven development

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive salary and equity packages for all employees
• ▹Platinum medical, dental and vision plan
• ▹Free life insurance, including long-term and short-term disability
• ▹Unlimited PTO and paid holidays
• ▹Maternity and paternity leave
• ▹401(k): the company contributes 3% of your income, even if you don't contribute
• ▹WFH benefits: lunch on the company twice a week, monthly phone stipend and other home office perks
• ▹Health FSAs and HSAs for pre-tax out-of-pocket medical expenses
• ▹Remote team with regular team events and offsites

About the company

Assured is on a mission to modernize insurance, providing large insurers with claims processing software, from self-service claim filing to backend fraud detection.