Senior Platform Engineer

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Cytora · 1 month ago

Senior Platform Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$100K/yr - $140K/yr

Cytora, now part of Applied Systems, is transforming the insurance industry through an AI-powered platform that enables smarter decisions, efficiency, and collaboration. The Senior Platform Engineer will build and maintain the infrastructure, monitoring systems, and CI/CD pipelines supporting Cytora’s serverless Underwriting Productivity Suite, while contributing to product roadmaps and technical improvements.

Property & Casualty InsuranceInformation TechnologySoftwareCommercial InsuranceInsuranceInsurTechRisk Management

Growth OpportunitiesNo H1B

Hiring Manager

Prince John

Responsibilities

You will be helping to build Cytora’s Underwriting Productivity Suite, a serverless based web application that increases the efficiency and effectiveness of underwriters thereby reducing expense ratios and delivering profitable growth to our customers

More specifically, you will be joining the platform team, which is responsible for the infrastructure of our application, our monitoring systems and our CI/CD pipelines

Have single and multi tenant deployments across Europe, United States and Australia

Have infrastructure deployed on AWS and GCP

Manage our infrastructure as code, using terraform

Use third party systems such us circleci, datadog, auth0, thoughspot

Have the mid-term requirement to scale, and the short-term requirement to deliver really fast, so this engineer will need to have good intuition on the level of complexity our systems need

This means providing feedback to product managers and the wider company, contributing to roadmaps, and bringing your creativity to bear by suggesting features and improvements based on your technical understanding of what is possible and needed

Qualification

AWSGCPServerless ComputingAWS LambdaAmazon SQSAmazon SNSAmazon S3Amazon Aurora ServerlessGCP Vertex AIGoogle BigQueryTerraformTerragruntPythonMulti-region DeploymentsAmazon VPCKubernetesAmazon EKSCircleCIDatadogCustomer-centricityNetworking Fundamentals

Required

We are looking for someone who is customer-centric, values-driven, and collaborative with great communication skills

Strong proven experience in serverless

Lambda/SQS/SNS/S3/Aurora Serverless/GCP Vertex AI/GCP BigQuery

Strong experience using a range of AWS services but not limited to: RDS Aurora Postgres, APIGW, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, SES, Cloudfront, Secret Manager, Certificate Manager

Experience building and maintaining multi-region deployments

Terraform/Terragrunt experience as this is part of our stack with Single Tenant deployments

Experience using an OOP language, we use Python

Experience using Terraform

Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including VPC configuration and security

Experience designing both single tenancy and multi tenancy solutions

Experience building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS

Maintaining CI/CD pipelines (we use CircleCI)

Monitoring, we use Datadog logs, APMs, profiling, App security

Awareness of GDPR compliant systems

Experience building event-driven, serverless applications

Cloudflare/Orca/Vanta

This role is remote and we are looking for individuals based in the East Coast

Additionally, this role is only suited for professionals currently based in the US and have full rights to work as we don't offer sponsorship at this stage

Preferred

ECS and Fargate are a plus

Prior experience using GCP is a plus, but not essential

Benefits

Flexible working and remote options

Professional development budget & conference access

Annual company retreats

A mission-driven culture that puts people first

Company

Cytora

Glassdoor

4.1

Commercial insurance risk digitization and underwriting automation platform.

Founded in 2014

London, England, GBR

51-200 employees

http://www.cytora.com/

Funding

Current Stage

Growth Stage

Total Funding

$41.43M

Key Investors

EQT VenturesParkwalk AdvisorsUniversity of Cambridge Enterprise

2025-09-09Acquired

2019-04-16Series B

• $32.61M

2017-12-06Series A

• $5.9M

Leadership Team

Richard Hartley

CEO

Aeneas Wiener

Co-founder and CTO

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