Harper
Platform Engineer
San Francisco$140k–$280kfulltimemidAdded 2 months ago
About this role
Harper is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and maintain the critical infrastructure supporting their rapidly scaling AI-powered insurance platform. This role involves owning core systems, designing for scale and reliability, and developing tooling to enhance developer velocity. The ideal candidate will be passionate about building systems that prevent problems and empower other engineers.
What you'll do
- Own core infrastructure components like databases, AWS services, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Design and build scalable systems for thousands of concurrent AI operations.
- Develop robust observability solutions for both system-level and business-level failures.
- Orchestrate agentic workloads reliably and cost-effectively.
- Create tooling and abstractions to improve developer velocity.
- Manage reliability end-to-end, including SLOs, on-call duties, and incident response.
What they're looking for
- AWS
- Databases (Postgres)
- Networking
- Observability
- Python
- TypeScript
Benefits
- Uber commuter benefits
- Snacks and drinks
- Free gym membership
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
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Harper
- Industry
- Insurance
Likely interview questions
- Describe a time you owned a production system at scale and what challenges you faced.
- Explain your experience with observability tooling and how you've used it to detect silent failures.