Platform Engineer II

📋 Job Overview

Bestow is a leading vertical technology platform serving some of the largest and most innovative life insurers. We are looking for a Platform Engineer II to join our engineering team responsible for all technology powering Bestow and the Bestow Platform. This role is open to remote employees in the U.S. (48 contiguous states only).

🏢 About Bestow

Life insurance is one of the world's most important products. It's also one of the hardest to build, distribute, and modernize. Bestow exists to change that. We are a leading vertical technology platform serving some of the largest and most innovative life insurers. Our platform unifies the fragmented, legacy value chain, enabling carriers to launch products in weeks instead of years. Carriers choose us to scale and operate at unprecedented speed, powered by AI and automation.

🎯 The Role

As a Platform Engineer II, you will automate cloud resources, implement developer tooling, and make changes to our products to increase their manageability. You should be able to define the technical design and implement work independently. You should have prior experience with systems administration and cloud service automation.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Automate cloud resources using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Administer our software platform, which includes Kubernetes, Pulumi Cloud, ArgoCD, CircleCI, and PostgreSQL.
• Contribute to projects in languages such as TypeScript, Python, Go, or Bash.
• Evaluate, design, and implement solutions for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps productivity.
• Ensure the reliability of our software by collaborating with product engineers to identify observability/configurability gaps and make code-level improvements.
• Creating the tooling to improve the developer experience, enabling them to deliver business value faster and more effectively.
• Manage runbooks for incident response; Measure operational performance and make gradual improvements.
• Participate in a primary on-call weekly rotation to maintain system reliability, respond to platform incidents, and perform blameless root-cause analysis.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Proficiency with GCP or other cloud platforms.
• Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Experience utilizing AI-powered coding assistants or agents, such as Claude Code, to enhance productivity and streamline development workflows.
• Familiarity with Typescript, Go, or similar.
• Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python, Bash, or similar.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
• Understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with version control tools like git and GitHub.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Familiarity with using observability platforms such as New Relic or Datadog.

🎁 Benefits

Bestow offers flexible remote/hybrid work, meaningful benefits, equity, and substantial growth opportunities. Our standard benefits include:

• Competitive salary and equity based on role
• Policies and managers that support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave programs
• 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
• Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote
• Remote and WFH options, as well as a beautiful, state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum, for those who prefer an office setting
• Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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