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Nirvana is a commercial insurance technology company on a mission to revolutionize the trillion-dollar insurance industry using data, AI, and real-time IoT insights. The company has raised $270+ million (Series D in December 2025) and is backed by top-tier VCs including Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and Valor. Nirvana's leadership team includes veterans from Samsara, Rubrik, Flexport, and major insurers like Hiscox and The Hartford.
The Cloud Infrastructure Platform team is responsible for foundational systems that enable all engineering teams to build, ship, and operate reliably. This Senior Software Engineer role is a hands-on platform engineering position focused on infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD, internal tooling, observability, and developer productivity.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building and maintaining core platform capabilities across Terraform-based infrastructure provisioning, GitHub Actions CI/CD, internal AI agent tooling, and developer productivity systems
- Owning end-to-end delivery of moderately complex platform projects from scoping through rollout and iteration
- Improving the self-serve infrastructure platform and workflows to accelerate engineering velocity
- Strengthening CI/CD reliability and developer experience across the monorepo
- Contributing to in-house AI agent tooling that supports the software development lifecycle
- Enhancing infrastructure security through secure-by-default patterns, technical controls, and SOC 2 compliance automation
- Building monitoring, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, and cost observability for platform services
- Participating in on-call rotations, postmortems, and reliability improvements
- Partnering with internal engineering teams as customers to understand needs, design solutions, and drive adoption
Required qualifications:
- 5–8 years of backend, infrastructure, platform, DevOps/SRE, or developer-productivity engineering experience
- Proven track record building and operating infrastructure or internal platforms used by other engineering teams
- Production-quality code proficiency in Go and/or Python with strong distributed systems fundamentals
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform or similar IaC, and CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions
- Strong observability, incident management, and operational ownership instincts
- Ability to independently break down ambiguous problems, make pragmatic decisions, and drive projects to completion
- Clear communication with technical and cross-functional partners; ability to influence without authority
- Comfort in high-growth, ambiguous startup environments with a strong bias for action
- Ownership mindset, quick learning ability, and willingness to work across platform and product areas
Bonus experience: Kubernetes, cloud cost optimization, security engineering, IAM, secrets management, supply-chain security, SOC 2/compliance controls, or applied AI/LLM tooling for developer workflows.
The company offers competitive compensation with meaningful equity, medical insurance, monthly wellness stipend, hybrid work culture with home office reimbursement, flexible vacation, and a transparent, autonomous work environment.
