Bestow is a smarter approach to life insurance using big data and technology to bring simple and affordable coverage to everyone.

Who We Are

We’re not your typical life insurance company. We’re on a mission to bring life insurance within reach to more people than ever before. To get there, we had to reimagine traditional industry assumptions, letting technology and big data lead the way. The result? Magnitudes of improvement over the status quo. And we’re just getting started.

Check us out at hellobestow.com

Who We’re Looking For

We’re looking for self-starters who want to make a big impact at one of the fastest growing tech startups in Texas. The ideal candidate is data driven and brings new ideas to the table but also works collaboratively.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will automate cloud resources, implement developer tooling, and make changes to our products to increase their manageability.

You should be able to define technical design and implement work independently.

You should have prior experience with systems administration and cloud service automation.

Bestow engineers are great teammates. You will be spending half of your time embedded with a product team. We do this so that you can get to know the specific needs of our product teams and ensure we build useful tooling. The remainder of your time will be spent with other Site Reliability Engineers working on cross-cutting projects. As such, you have exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Do you want to build products to reinvent a centuries old industry? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Challenges on which you can expect to work:

Cloud Infrastructure Projects

We believe that all cloud infrastructure should be treated as code. Modifications go through code review and are executed via CI tools.

Automate cloud infrastructure via tools like Terraform and Atlantis;

Administer our software platform including Kubernetes, BigQuery and PostgreSQL;

Evaluate, design and implement solutions for continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps productivity.

Ensure Reliability of Our Software

Great software is more than product features. It simultaneously considers non-functional concerns like security, maintainability and extensibility. You are responsible for ensuring:

Collaborate with product engineers to identify observability/configurability gaps and make code-level improvements;

Creating tooling to improve the developer experience, enabling them to deliver business value faster and more effectively;

Manage runbooks for incident response;

Measure operational performance and make gradual improvements.

We're seeking someone who has:

• 4+ years of site reliability, systems administration or DevOps experience
• Professional experience with container orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Swarm, Rancher, ECS, etc.)
• Professional experience with a cloud hosting platform (GCP preferred)
• Professional experience with TerraformAtlantis experience a plus
• Professional experience administering a CI/CD platform GitOps experience a plus
• Experience with Python 3 and Golang
• Proficient in a scripting language such as Bash, Python or Ruby
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication
• A desire and willingness to learnInitiative and motivation to make things happen

What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary
• Generous PTO
• Flexible schedule and work/life balance
• 100% company-paid health, dental, and vision insurance
• Choose your own computer setup (Mac or PC)
• Office snacks and weekly team lunches
• Team building events and activities

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.