Openly

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Remote, US)

United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Insurance, Insurtech, BiotechnologyIndustries

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Position Overview

Openly is rebuilding insurance from the ground up, re-envisioning and enhancing every aspect of the customer experience. We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and build the technology infrastructure for Openly's insurance platform. You will play a crucial role in building, testing, and maintaining the infrastructure and the overall technology ecosystem that powers our insurance products and customer experiences.

Why Openly?

Openly was created to address a gap in the market for premium insurance made simple. We believe consumers deserve more complete coverage at competitive prices.

  • The Price Difference: Utilizing cutting-edge data and technology for customizable, competitive pricing.
  • The Policy Difference: Offering truly customizable coverages to meet individual protection needs.
  • The Experience Difference: Focusing on making the home insurance purchasing process a better overall experience, from tailored claims handling to responsive customer service.

At Openly, our people are as important as our product. We prioritize collaboration, communication, and work-life balance. Our core values are:

  • Integrity
  • Empathy
  • Teamwork
  • Curiosity
  • Urgency

We are committed to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, embracing individuality and believing that diverse teams are winning teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build internal tooling to help engineers and the company understand and operate our system.
  • Design and implement security best practices for our team and infrastructure.
  • Automate repetitive tasks to reduce toil, including building and maintaining CI/CD infrastructure, developing CLI and ChatOps tools, and automating manual processes.
  • Build infrastructure as code using declarative provisioning tools.
  • Develop high signal-to-noise ratio monitoring and alerting policies and technology to help us meet our SLOs.
  • Lead incident response and postmortems.
  • Contribute to important architectural and operational decisions (e.g., microservices vs. monoliths, deployment techniques, technologies, policies).
  • Participate in a regular on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 availability and rapid response to production incidents.

Our Stack

  • Backend/Core: Go, Temporal, & Postgresql
  • Frontend: Browser-based, VueJS, Webpack, Nuxt & Tailwind
  • Research/Data Science: R, ArcGIS, Jupyter Notebooks, & Python
  • Data: GCP GCS, BigQuery, Composer/Airflow, Cloud Functions, Postgres, SQL, Python, Aiven Debezium and Kafka, Fivetran
  • Infrastructure: Google Cloud (Cloud Run, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, CloudSQL), managed with Terraform. GitHub for code hosting, DataDog for monitoring, and CircleCI for CI/CD.
  • Remote work tools: Slack, Zoom, Donut, Notion

Requirements

  • 4+ years of professional/production experience developing and using infrastructure.

(Note: If you don't meet all criteria but are interested, please apply. We value enthusiasm and potential.)

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Skills

Site Reliability Engineering
Cloud Computing
System Administration
Automation
Monitoring
Troubleshooting
Performance Tuning
Scalability
High Availability
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
Networking
Security

Openly

Home and landlord insurance solutions provider

About Openly

Openly modernizes the home and landlord insurance market by providing premium insurance products through independent agents. Their policies, underwritten by a financially stable carrier, focus on comprehensive coverage for homeowners and landlords. Openly uses advanced technology and data analytics to offer accurate pricing and better risk assessment, ensuring clients receive fair premiums and quality service. The company aims to simplify the insurance process, making it easy for clients to manage their policies while enhancing customer satisfaction.

Boston, MassachusettsHeadquarters
2017Year Founded
$231.2MTotal Funding
SERIES_DCompany Stage
Data & Analytics, Financial ServicesIndustries
201-500Employees

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Paid Vacation
Paid Holidays
Parental Leave
401(k) Company Match
Home Office Stipend
Professional Development Budget
Wellness Program

Risks

Rapid expansion could strain operational capabilities and customer service quality.
New carrier launch may face regulatory challenges in 17 states.
Focus on technology exposes Openly to risks of tech failures or cyber threats.

Differentiation

Openly uses advanced data analytics for accurate pricing and risk assessment.
The company partners with independent agents for personalized service and expert advice.
Openly offers a streamlined quoting and claims process for enhanced customer satisfaction.

Upsides

Openly raised $100M in Series D funding to expand operations and business reach.
The company serves 30,000 independent agents across 21 states in the U.S.
Integration of AI in underwriting enhances risk assessment and customer satisfaction.

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