Improve observability, monitoring, and deployment reliability
Ship meaningful improvements to internal dashboards and underwriting tools
Become a key partner to data engineering and modeling teams for system reliability
Have materially improved our DevOps posture and developer workflows
Be a go-to person for infrastructure and architecture decisions
Help shape how new underwriting and mapping products are deployed and supported
Raise the engineering standard across backend, infra, and internal tooling
Improve parts of Kettle’s AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and containerized workloads
Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent)
Improve observability, logging, monitoring, deployment reliability, and cost efficiency
Build and maintain internal dashboards and tools in React/TypeScript
Contribute to architecture decisions across backend, infrastructure, and applications
Design and maintain backend services and internal APIs (Python)

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
5+ years of professional software development experience, including ownership of production systems
Strong experience in
Operating production systems in AWS (ECS, EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM, RDS, etc.)
DevOps practices: CI/CD, Docker, monitoring, reliability, security best practices
Infrastructure-as-code and reproducible environments
React / TypeScript frontend development
Postgres and database-backed applications
Experience in python development, including packaging and environment management
You have demonstrated ability to:
Own systems end-to-end, from design through deployment and ongoing operation
Work effectively in small teams and ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Make pragmatic architectural trade-offs balancing speed, reliability, and scalability
Improve engineering workflows, deployment processes, and overall system reliability
Identify and proactively address infrastructure or operational bottlenecks before they become critical issues

Benefits

Be part of a mission-driven company tackling real-world challenges.
Work with a passionate and innovative team in a collaborative environment.
Opportunity to influence cutting-edge wildfire risk modeling in a dynamic industry.
Competitive salary and benefits package, including remote work.
This position is eligible for stock options (subject to board approval).

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSTerraformReactTypeScriptPythonCI/CDDockerPostgresinfrastructure-as-codemonitoring

Soft Skills

teamworkproblem-solvingcommunicationadaptabilityownershippragmatic decision-makingreliability focusscalability awarenessworkflow improvementoperational efficiency