Kalepa

Staff Platform Engineer - Infrastructure

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Base Salary

$240k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Maintain CI/CD pipelines and automate operational workflows.
  • Improve infrastructure performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to standardize environments and deployment patterns.
  • Maintain observability and incident response processes.
  • Help ensure cloud-based systems remain secure, compliant, and scalable.
  • Build scalable backend solutions in collaboration with full-stack, data, AI, and DevOps engineers.
  • Own projects through completion with minimal oversight and communicate progress and blockers proactively.

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 with Python; strong candidates from other object-oriented programming backgrounds may also be considered.
  • 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.
  • Experience with LLMs/generative AI or distributed systems is a bonus.
  • Ability to take ownership, drive projects to completion, communicate proactively, and iterate through experimentation.

Benefits

  • $240,000–$300,000 USD salary range based on experience.
  • Significant equity options package.
  • Hybrid work in New York, NY.
  • 20 days of paid time off per year.
  • Global team offsites.
  • 100% company-paid medical, vision, and dental coverage for individuals and families.
  • Healthy living or gym stipend and mobile phone bill stipend.
  • Continuing education credits.
  • 401(k) plan with employer contribution regardless of employee contribution.
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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.

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