Senior Systems Engineer

About Zego

At Zego, we understand that traditional motor insurance holds good drivers back. It's too complicated, too expensive, and it doesn't reflect how well you actually drive. Since 2016, we have been on a mission to change that by offering the lowest priced insurance for good drivers.
From van drivers and gig workers to everyday car drivers, our customers are the driving force behind everything we do. We've sold tens of millions of policies and raised over $200 million in funding. And we’re only just getting started.

Overview of our Engineering Team

Zego puts technology first in its mission to define the future of the insurance industry. By focusing on our customers' needs we're building the flexible and sustainable insurance products and services that they deserve. And we do that by empowering a diverse, resourceful, and creative team of engineers that thrive on challenge and innovation.

Purpose of the Role

You will play a key role in shaping the future of the Systems Engineering function at Zego.

• You will be part of the team ultimately responsible for the uptime of the Zego Hosting Platform and services.
• You will build and nurture relationships with key stakeholders across Product and Engineering to ensure our platform is aligned with business objectives.

• You will champion agile methodologies, metrics and tooling to support the teams in incrementally improving the efficiency of our hosting platform.

What you will be doing

• Drive improvements to the Zego Hosting Platform at scale, influence change and buy-in across the organisation.
• Play a key role in defining technical solutions with a detailed analysis of costs, risks, performance, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Approach our processes critically, identify areas of improvement and balance business priorities against technical compromises.
• Nurture a culture of continuous learning and knowledge-sharing, leading by example across multiple areas and teams. 
• Use code reviews as an opportunity to ensure coding styles are followed and leading the team in defining new standards to promote a clear and concise codebase.

What you will need to be successful

We are looking for engineers who embrace the DevOps culture to deliver continuous improvements to our security posture. Engaging with and empowering the teams to drive change leveraging metrics, championing automation and operational excellence.

• Good coding and scripting skills in languages such as Bash and Python with a focus on automating infrastructure tasks, monitoring, and process optimisation.
• Experience configuring Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Crossplane, and Helm, with a focus on building scalable, reliable, and reproducible infrastructure.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS cloud services, especially core services like VPC, S3, EC2, Kinesis, RDS, and EKS, with experience in multi-account setups and optimising for performance and cost-efficiency.
• Skilled in container management and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Service Mesh (ie. Istio) and GitOps (ie. ArgoCD), with a focus on streamlined deployments and managing complex service-oriented architectures.
• Experienced in leveraging observability tools, such as Honeycomb (OpenTelemetry) and DataDog, to support data-driven decisions across the wider engineering team.
• Comprehensive understanding of networking in cloud environments, including VPN solutions, efficient network configuration, load balancing, and troubleshooting.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and optimising CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable, automated delivery of code across development, testing, and production environments.

If possible, we'd also love you to have

• Experience with maintaining relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience with supporting AI and ML workloads.

What’s it like to work at Zego?

Joining Zego is a career-defining move. People go further here, reaching their full potential to achieve extraordinary things. 

We’re spread throughout the UK and Europe, and united by our drive to get things done. We’re proud of our company and our culture – a friendly and inclusive space where we can lift each other up and celebrate our wins every day.

Together, we’re setting the bar higher, delivering exceptional work that makes a difference. Our people are the most important part of our story, and everyone here plays a role. There’s loads of room to learn and grow, and you’ll get the freedom to steer your career wherever you want.

You’ll work alongside a talented group who embrace each other's differences and aren’t afraid of a challenge. We recognise our achievements, learn from our mistakes, and help each other to be the best we can be. Together, we’re making insurance matter.

How we work

We believe that teams work better when they have time to collaborate and space to get things done. We call it Zego Hybrid. We ask you to spend at least one day a week in our central London office. We think it’s a good mix of collaborative face time and flexible home-working, setting us up to achieve the right balance between work and life.

Benefits

We reward our people well. Join us and you’ll get a market-competitive salary, private medical insurance, company share options, generous holiday allowance, and a whole lot of wellbeing benefits. And that’s just for starters. We also cover the costs for all company-wide events (3 per year), and also provide a separate hybrid contribution to help pay towards other travel costs.

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

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