Kalepa

Staff Platform Engineer - Infrastructure

Kalepa
Apply
4 hours ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$220k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain infrastructure and tooling for Kalepa’s core platform.
  • Maintain deployment pipelines and automate operational workflows.
  • Improve infrastructure performance, reliability, scalability, and cloud cost efficiency.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to standardize environments and deployment patterns.
  • Maintain observability and incident response processes.
  • Support secure and compliant cloud-based systems.
  • Contribute to scalable backend solutions with full-stack, data, AI, and DevOps engineers.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering or DevOps experience, ideally including infrastructure, performance, security, or compliance work.
  • Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
  • Proficiency in Python or a strong background in another object-oriented language.
  • Experience with serverless technologies including Lambda and EC2, asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
  • Strong knowledge of relational databases and database performance tuning, ideally PostgreSQL.
  • Knowledge of Terraform, infrastructure-as-code best practices, and Docker or similar tools.
  • Ability to take ownership, drive projects with minimal oversight, communicate proactively, and iterate through experimentation.
  • Experience with LLMs, generative AI, or distributed systems is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Remote position based in the USA.
  • 20 days of paid time off annually.
  • Global team offsites and regional meetups.
  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage fully paid for individuals and families.
  • Healthy living or gym stipend and mobile phone bill stipend.
  • Continuing education credits.
  • 401(k) plan with an employer contribution regardless of employee contribution.
  • Significant equity options package.
Kalepa

About Kalepa

51-200 employees

Make better underwriting decisions, faster with Kalepa. Kalepa delivers Professional Grade AI for profitable underwriting - instantly analyzing submissions, surfacing critical risk insights, and pinpointing the most profitable opportunities with the speed and precision modern risk demands.

Contact me