Comulate - Platform Engineer

Salary: $160K - $240K Location Type: Remote Employment Type: FullTime

Position Overview

Comulate is revolutionizing the insurance back office with AI, streamlining accounting processes that are traditionally expensive and time-consuming. Our platform is the first step in our vision to optimize the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on manual insurance operations. Following our Series B funding round led by BOND & Workday in early 2025, we are experiencing record growth and accelerating our expansion plans.

Why Join Comulate?

• Record-Setting Growth: Achieved 8-figure ARR within three years, placing us in the 95th+ percentile for company growth among startups.
• Strong Product-Market Fit: Our platform is described by users as "the best thing since sliced bread" and "life-changing."
• Impactful Work: Our lean, talented team builds category-defining products for large enterprises, driving significant ROI and cash-flow operations.
• Employee Ownership: Benefit from outsized employee ownership with low company risk.
• Ambitious Vision: We are making bold, first-to-market bets for a committed customer base and an exciting pipeline.
• Early Innings: We are at the beginning of our journey to deploy AI into core insurance industry workflows.

About the Role

As our first Platform Engineer, you will be instrumental in shaping our cloud infrastructure, ensuring our systems are reliable, scalable, and secure. We need an experienced team member to implement best practices from day one to support our rapid growth.

Our Stack: TypeScript, Node, Postgres, React, Next.js, AWS (ECS, RDS, ElastiCache)

Learn more about our engineering culture and learnings on our engineering blog.

Responsibilities

• Shape and manage our cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our systems.
• Implement and maintain best practices for cloud infrastructure and platform engineering.
• Execute on projects such as blue-green deployments, VPN for employees (e.g., Tailscale), and Postgres observability tooling (e.g., pganalyze or pghero).
• Write application layer code.
• Drive engineering best practices around application performance, monitoring, and alerting.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and local development tooling (e.g., hot-reloading, unit testing speed).

Requirements

• 3+ years of cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE experience.
• 1+ years of experience architecting AWS infrastructure.
• 1+ years of experience writing application layer code.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Understanding of AWS networking, including VPCs and VPNs.
• Proven ability to drive engineering best practices for application performance, monitoring, and alerting.
• Experience improving developer experience, CI/CD pipelines, and local development tooling.

Nice to Have:

• Deep understanding of Postgres performance and advising on query optimization.
• Familiarity with compliance standards such as SOC 2.

Team & Philosophy

We are backed by leading investors including BOND, Spark Capital, Neo, and Workday, as well as founders and executives from prominent tech companies like Brex, Asana, Plaid, Applied Intuition, and Coalition. Our team members come from companies such as Airbnb, Google, Brex, and LiveRamp. We maintain a low-profile approach, focusing our energy on delivering value to customers and building a category-defining company.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and generous equity.
• Generous medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401K plan enrollment.
• Flexible time-off policy.
• Daily lunch & dinner.
• Paid parental leave.
• Company outings and offsites.
• (And more benefits as we grow!)

Company Information

Comulate is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.