Staff Infrastructure & Automation Engineer

Summary

Ready for a new challenge? Join Guidewire as an Infrastructure Engineer! We are building a new team to take advantage of our market leading position and access to data to build advanced predictive models and variables to drive the next generation of growth in the P&C insurance market. This is an opportunity to come on board early and shape our direction and have a broad impact on the insurance industry.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate cloud-based infrastructure, with a focus on Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD methodologies
• Exert technical influence to improve the reliability and performance of our products and systems
• Assist Product Engineering teams in building out infrastructure for prototypes and other Research & Development efforts
• Operate development and high-availability production environments in Amazon Web Services
• Coach and mentor other engineers and teams on cloud best practices
• Work collaboratively with other staff including product managers, data scientists, other data analysts, architects to solve problems, develop innovative approaches, and provide project status
• At Guidewire, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and responsible use of AI—empowering our teams to continuously leverage emerging technologies and data-driven insights to enhance productivity and outcomes.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent industry technical skills
• 5+ years of work experience in a SaaS production environment, ideally Enterprise
• Experience in building scalable platform software using Kubernetes, Docker, and other Cloud native technologies
• Strong experience using public cloud providers, preferably AWS
• Strong understanding of networking and security fundamentals
• Comfort with Linux system administration and scripting, e.g. Python, Shell
• Experience with designing, analyzing and solving problems for large-scale distributed systems
• Demonstrated ability to embrace AI and apply it to your current role as well as data-driven insights to drive innovation, productivity, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong communication skills, able to convey technical concepts and architectures across a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams, with an emphasis on strong written communication for asynchronous collaboration
• Experience with monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing data/ai/ml pipelines for reliability and performance
• Exposure to Predictive Models and ML training & Serving systems 

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000 - $250,000 . Your base pay will depend on your experience, skills, education, training, and location among other factors. All full-time positions or part-time roles working 30 hours or more a week at Guidewire are eligible for benefits that support their health and well-being including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a company sponsored retirement plan. In addition, some roles may be eligible for the annual company bonus plan, commissions, and/or long term incentive awards which are contingent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, company and employee performance.

Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to [email protected]. If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, e-mail [email protected] to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.