Company Description
Harbor.ai is an InsurTech startup aiming to revolutionize the enterprise insurance market. Our technology simplifies the process for insurance brokers to identify optimal coverage for their clients continuously, and this is just the beginning. Our mission is to revolutionize underwriting for better, faster, and smarter processes. As we pursue this goal, we are implementing a data-driven business model that fundamentally reshapes how insurance products are sold. Established in 2018, Harbor.ai is venture-backed and based in New York.
This position is 100% on-site at our New York City headquarters.
About the Role:
We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team and help scale our infrastructure. You'll architect cloud systems, establish best practices, and build robust infrastructure that enables our engineering organization to move fast. This is a deeply hands-on role where you'll make critical infrastructure decisions, define our approach to cloud architecture and security, and ensure we scale reliably. A high-impact position for someone who thrives in startup environments with true ownership over production systems.
Required:
- 2+ years of DevOps experience
- Startup or similarly fast-paced, hands-on environment experience (Must-have)
- Expert-level AWS production experience
- Production Kubernetes cluster architecture and administration
- Deep Terraform expertise at scale
- Experience designing enterprise-grade CI/CD systems
- Strong Python and Bash automation capabilities
- Cloud security architecture, networking design, and compliance experience
- Track record building production environments from scratch
Tech Stack:
- Cloud: AWS
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
- CI/CD: Modern CI/CD platforms
- IaC: Terraform
Preferred:
- Microservices architecture at scale
- Advanced observability implementation
- Database operations experience
- Compliance implementation experience
- GitOps workflows
What You'll Do:
- Own infrastructure strategy and architecture decisions
- Design and implement scalable, secure cloud environments
- Architect and optimize production Kubernetes clusters
- Establish DevOps best practices, standards, and processes
- Build robust CI/CD systems for fast, reliable deployments
- Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Drive infrastructure automation initiatives
- Own incident response and establish SLIs/SLOs
- Define security policies and compliance controls
- Optimize infrastructure costs and performance
- Create documentation and runbooks
What We're Looking For:
You've built and scaled production systems in startup or similarly fast-paced environments where you owned infrastructure end-to-end. You understand the full DevOps lifecycle and can balance speed with reliability as the business grows. You have strong technical opinions from real experience but stay pragmatic about tradeoffs. You're excited to work on a small, focused team where you'll have significant impact on our DevOps practice, establishing patterns, choosing tooling, and building the foundation for growth. You make sound technical decisions with incomplete information and thrive doing both deep hands-on work and strategic thinking.
Please note that any emails from recruiters will be printed, then ceremoniously disposed of.
Note to All Applicants:
Harbor.ai is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to Careers@harborai.net.
Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable; bonuses are not guaranteed.
Harbor.ai is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We may use your information to maintain the safety and security of Harbor.ai, its employees, and others as required or permitted by law. Additionally, Harbor.ai in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law.
Harbor.ai is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at Careers@harborai.net.
