Staff Software Engineer, Platform

The role

You will own and evolve the strategy, architecture, and governance of release and configuration systems. You will build tooling, workflows, and safeguards to make releases reliable and scalable for engineering teams.

What you will do

• Drive and build the release and configuration layer of the platform
• Design and implement scalable release workflows and tooling
• Operate as a technical leader within the Platform Engineering Zone
• Build systems for release orchestration
• Develop self-service tooling and paved paths
• Identify systemic issues in release and environment management
• Build and embed automated validation, safety checks, and rollback mechanisms
• Design and implement environment and configuration management systems
• Improve release reliability, scalability, and developer experience
• Build and evolve observability into the release lifecycle

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building platform systems, infrastructure, or developer-facing tooling
• Strong software engineering skills (TypeScript or similar)
• Track record of building internal tools, services, or frameworks
• Experience leading or heavily contributing to shared engineering platforms
• Deep familiarity with CI/CD systems as platforms
• Strong understanding of containerized systems (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience building systems on AWS
• Strong understanding of release systems: artifact management, promotion strategies, rollback mechanisms, and deployment safety
• Proven ability to identify systemic problems and turn them into scalable tooling or platform improvements
• Experience working across platform domains (CI, infrastructure, SRE)
• Focus on developer experience
• Builder’s mindset

Nice to have

• Deep curiosity in Agentic, spec-driven development

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Platinum medical, dental, and vision
• Free life insurance including long-term disability & short-term disability
• Unlimited PTO including uncapped vacation days & paid holidays
• Maternity & paternity leave
• 401(k) Contribution: Assured contributes 3% of your income
• Lunch on us 2x/week
• Monthly phone stipend
• Other home office perks
• Health FSAs & HSAs
• Team events & Offsites

About the company

Assured provides large insurers with software solutions to modernize claims processing. They provide tools ranging from self-service claim-filing software to backend fraud detection.