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About Us
Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.
Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com
Our Team
From data scientists and actuaries to engineers, designers and marketers, we’re a world class team of tech-minded professionals from some of the best companies in Silicon Valley, and around the world. We’ve come together to create the context-based insurance solutions and experiences of the future. We know that the key to our success isn't just about nailing the technology—it’s hiring the talented people who will help us continue to make a quantifiable impact.
The role
Quanata is seeking a Platform Engineer to join us in providing a suite of solutions that enable our product development and engineering organization to create, and deliver Quanata’s technical offerings. Our team focuses on enabling software engineers to reliably and rapidly deliver software, and manages the company’s cloud infrastructure.
Your day-to-day
- Design and develop the platform architecture, including infrastructure, networking, and software components.
- Seek out and evaluate new technologies and make recommendations for their use as new platform features, capabilities and patterns, and improve system reliability.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure their applications are optimized for deployment in an IAC environment, and meet security and compliance needs.
- Develop and maintain automation and deployment processes to enable and improve developer experience and efficiency.
- Implement monitoring and logging solutions to ensure the platform is performing at its best and identify areas for improvement.
- Encourage developer autonomy and self-service by contributing to developer training and documentation for Platform products.
- Promote a supportive culture focused on building reliable systems and processes based on established best practices in the industry.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in the platform, including performance and scalability issues.
- Implement security and compliance measures to ensure the platform meets regulatory requirements.
- Participate in on-call rotation to provide support for internal developer services.
About you
- Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
- Eight or more years of experience in platform engineering or developer experience tooling to include:
- Five or more years of experience working with consumer facing websites and technologies.
- Three or more years of experience working with distributed systems.
- Experience and understanding of CI/CD processes and tooling such as GitLab, Github, or Jenkins.
- Experience and understanding of Go, Python, or Bash languages
- Experience and understanding of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
- Experienced enabling and troubleshooting containerized workloads in ECS, Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
- Experience working in GCP or AWS.
- Enjoy working on infrastructure but engage in understanding your customer needs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to contribute during code reviews, and capture tasks.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills and great attention to detail.
Salary: $194,000 to $300,000*
*Please note that the final salary offered will be determined based on the selected candidate's skills, and experience, as well as the internal salary structure at Quanata. Our aim is to offer a competitive and equitable compensation package that reflects the candidate's expertise and contributions to our organization.
Additional Details:
- Benefits: We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits.These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.
- Work from Home Equipment: Given our virtual environment— in order to set you up for success at home, a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. Also, our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day.
- Paid Time Off: All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment. New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.
- Personal and Professional Development: We’re committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally. All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. All team members also receive Udemy subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
- Location: We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. Occasional travel may be required for team meetings or company gatherings. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.
- Hours: We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 3PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.
Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
If you are a San Francisco resident, please read the City and County of San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance notice. https://sfgov.org/olse/sites/default/files/FCO%20poster2020.pdf
This role is employed by Quanata, LLC is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.
If you require a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to your Talent Acquisition Partner for assistance.
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What We Do
Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. With the full backing of State Farm, we’re powering the insurance industry of tomorrow and helping enable better driving behaviors. Our top tier team of tech-minded professionals comprises data scientists, actuaries, engineers, designers and marketers—many from the best companies in Silicon Valley—and we’re inspired to create the insurance products and experiences of the future.
Learn more about us and our work at http://www.quanata.com.
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