Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Assured • Palo Alto, CA

80d

About The Position

Assured is on a mission to modernize insurance, focusing on claims processing, which is often overlooked but is the foundation of the entire industry. Currently, this process is highly manual, involving phone calls, faxes, and gut instinct, costing tens of billions of dollars a year. Assured provides large insurers with the software solutions they need to thrive in a technology-driven world, offering everything from self-service claim filing software to backend fraud detection. The challenges faced are diverse, from creating digital experiences that provide comfort and clarity to claimants to orchestrating large-scale ML-driven decision-making on billions of dollars of claims payments. Life at Assured is dynamic, collaborative, and rewarding. We are looking for a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing team, who will help build efficient, reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure and developer platforms. The ideal candidate will have experience in a start-up environment and expertise in deploying and automating the delivery of modern SaaS platforms at scale.

Requirements

• Ability to autonomously design, build, and scale high-quality infrastructure from early stages to maturity
• Experience with automation and understanding when pragmatism and simplicity are necessary
• Proactive in identifying and solving critical infrastructure problems, collaborating across teams as needed
• Ability to improve others through code reviews, documentation, technical guidance, and mentorship
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and persist through challenges, rallying others when necessary
• Experience architecting and operating highly available database solutions, ideally Aurora PostgreSQL
• Self-motivated, resourceful, and comfortable working with minimal oversight
• Strong experience with AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes in a scaling environment
• Strong engineering background and history of designing resilient systems

Responsibilities

• Design and build infrastructure and tooling to support the Assured platform, from scaling existing products to enabling entirely new product initiatives
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and management with Terraform and Terragrunt to ensure consistency, repeatability, and reliability across a large number of customer environments
• Evolve our platform foundations across AWS (EKS, SQS, Aurora, S3), balancing innovation with sustainability
• Partner with product and engineering teams to improve performance and reliability across services
• Strengthen our security posture, implementing best practices and ensuring compliance with industry standards
• Improve developer experience, building systems that make it easier and faster for teams to deliver value
• Lead, mentor, and collaborate with engineers across the company, raising the bar on technical excellence and infrastructure practices

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation: Enjoy a competitive salary and equity package!
• Comprehensive Health Care: Access to multiple medical plans with an HSA option and minimal out-of-pocket expenses. Certain plans covered 100%.
• Dental Insurance: We protect those pearly whites
• Vision Insurance: Everyone can see clearly now at Assured
• Life Insurance: It's on the house! Provided at no cost to you
• Paid Time Off: Uncapped vacation days and paid holidays. Take that vacation!
• Family Leave: Maternity and paternity leave options
• Financial Wellness: 401(k) contribution with Assured contributing 3% of your income, even if you don't contribute
• Flexible Spending Accounts: Health and dependent care FSAs for pre-tax flexible spending

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees