Insurtech, Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Technology

Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer

RemoteRemoteFull TimeSenior$170,000–$210,000 /yrPosted 2 days ago

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Required skills

incident management
vulnerability scanning
remediation
SOC2 Type II
ISO 27001
cloud infrastructure
automation
GCP
Kubernetes
Terraform

Nice to have

secure architecture
event-driven architecture

Role summary

Federato is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer to enhance their security posture and infrastructure management. This hybrid role involves supporting incident management, refining security procedures, and improving the secure software development lifecycle through vulnerability scanning and remediation. You will also streamline customer security questionnaire handling and develop business continuity/disaster recovery plans. On the infrastructure side, you'll collaborate on new features, automate management using tools like Terraform and GitHub Actions, optimize GCP and Kubernetes environments, and improve observability and performance monitoring stacks. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of cloud infrastructure experience, familiarity with SOC2/ISO 27001, and 3+ years in GCP and Kubernetes.

There's nothing more exciting than transforming an industry that's been stagnant for decades.

Federato is an AI-native platform that’s bringing agentic AI to the full policy lifecycle. We’re aggressively transforming how insurance work gets done, and the world is paying attention: we've raised $180 million, including a $100 million Series D from Goldman Sachs. We have powerful product-market fit, and we're growing fast globally.

You'll get to work on complex problems with one of the most advanced AI teams you'll find anywhere. If you're the person we need, you know that AI bolted onto legacy systems is too weak to matter. That's why we built our platform to be AI-native from day one. That's why you can do here what you can never do at a legacy software company. move fast and prove it, not theorize it. We think from first principles. You’ll work on problems that matter, building software that fundamentally changes how insurance operates.

What you'll do

In your security engineer capacity:

Support incident management and resolution, play a leading role in refining our incident management procedures, ensure adherence to those procedures, and facilitate activities for those procedures.

Improve Secure Software Development Lifecycle, make improvements to our Software Development Lifecycle to improve security: vulnerability scanning, remediation process; ensuring that remediations are made within the prescribed timeframes; and developing educational materials for all engineers within the company

Streamline Customer Security Questionnaire Handling, work on various projects to streamline Federato’s ability to answer Customer Security questionnaires by applying technology and developing tooling or systems

Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Planning, assess threats to business continuity and develop disaster recovery plans for them, ensure recurring exercises of those plans are conducted

In your infrastructure engineer capacity:

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide infrastructure support for new features and services.

Enhance and automate infrastructure management using tools like Terraform, Argo, and GitHub Actions to streamline deployments and operational processes.

Manage and optimize our GCP and Kubernetes (GKE) environment, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.

Improve our observability stack, working with tools such as Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Alert Manager to provide real-time monitoring and proactive alerting.

Set up and maintain performance monitoring tools, including k6 and other solutions, to ensure optimal performance and capacity planning.

Who We Hope You Have:

5+ years of hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure and automation.

Experience in achieving SOC2 Type II, ISO 27001, or similar certifications

Experience with Node.js or Python for backend services in a microservices architecture.

3+ years of experience with cloud providers, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

3+ years of experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments.

Knowledge of asynchronous processing, message queues (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub), and event-driven architecture for backend applications.

Experience focused on the internal engineer team success

$170,000 - $210,000 a yearFinal offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate location, experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above. Total compensation package does include stock options, benefits and additional perks.

Here at Federato, your capabilities are important, but culture fit is essential. We move fast, are eager to listen to our users, take a first principles approach to solving problems, and value learning and the ability to change our minds. Most importantly, we're here to have fun. Our ability to make a difference starts with our people. We would love to work with you!

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, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. We will provide reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation at talent@federato.ai

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