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Kalepa · 3 weeks ago

Senior Platform Engineer - Infrastructure (USA)

positionNew York, NY
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level
money$170K/yr - $210K/yr
date5+ years exp

Kalepa is an AI Underwriting Platform aiming to revolutionize the commercial insurance industry. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to work on infrastructure and tooling for their core platform, focusing on CI/CD pipelines, operational workflows, and ensuring security and compliance standards.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataCommercial InsuranceInsuranceInsurTechSoftwareTechnical Support
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Work on the infrastructure and tooling that power our core platform
Maintain CI/CD pipelines and automate operational workflows
Ensure we stay secure and compliant to industry standards
Improve infrastructure performance and reliability
Monitor and optimize system cost
Collaborate with engineering teams to standardize environments and deployment patterns
Help maintain observability and incident response processes
Ensure the scalability of our cloud-based systems

Qualification

CI/CD pipelinesPythonCloud environmentsSystem designTerraformRelational databasesServerless technologiesDockerExperimentationProblem-solvingCommunication

Required

5+ years of software engineering or dev-ops experience, ideally with time spent working on CI/CD pipelines, security, performance and infrastructure
embody hustle and grit, you're excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it
take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight
communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop
thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before
strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
know Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds
experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments
comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
know terraform, IaaC best practices, Docker or similar tools

Preferred

experience with LLMs/generative AI
experience with distributed systems

Benefits

Significant equity options package.
20 days of PTO a year.
Global team offsites.
Gym reimbursement.
Phone reimbursement.
Student stipend.

Company

Kalepa

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Kalepa is a commercial insurance company that provides an AI-powered underwriting workbench for insurers.
dateFounded in 2018
location
New York, New York, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://www.kalepa.com

H1B Sponsorship

Kalepa has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (1)
2020 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$14M
Key Investors
Inspired Capital PartnersIA Ventures
2021-09-03Series A· $14M
2018-10-01Seed

Leadership Team

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Paul Monasterio
CEO and Co-Founder
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Daniel Hillman
COO and Co-Founder
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Recent News

FF News | Fintech Finance
Kalepa Appoints David Meister as Chief Revenue Officer to Accelerate Growth
2025-11-19
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Kalepa partners with AmRisc to scale AI-powered underwriting operations
2025-10-29
FinTech Global
Kalepa joins forces with Hinterland for AI-driven insurance
2025-10-21
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