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title: 'Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer at Federato'
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# Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer at Federato

- **Company:** Federato
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/federato/jobs/5473395008

## Job description

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

[Federato](https://www.federato.ai/) 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 year Final 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

## About Federato

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Federato provides an AI-native underwriting platform for the property & casualty (P&C) insurance industry, using agentic AI and deep reinforcement learning to help carriers, MGAs, and mutuals optimize portfolio performance across the full policy lifecycle.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, $100M raised in Nov 2025.)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Will Ross (CEO) and William Steenbergen (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Insurance Technology (Insurtech), Enterprise SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- **Target customers**: P&C insurance carriers, Managing General Agents (MGAs), MGA Aggregators, and Mutual insurance companies (B2B, Enterprise).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Through the use of bleeding-edge deep reinforcement learning and AI, we enable insurers to provide efficient and affordable coverage to underserved communities, people, and organizations in the face of societal issues and risks like the climate crisis, cyber attacks, and social inflation.

## Products & Services
- **Federato RiskOps Platform**: An AI-native SaaS platform that spans the full policy lifecycle. It uses a tiered approach to AI underwriting - from basic triage and AI Decision Support to Supervised AI Underwriting (automatically quoting deals within guardrails for audit) and fully **Agentic AI Underwriting** that drafts complete, explained quotes for underwriter review in seconds. The platform provides a single-pane-of-glass view of workflows, real-time portfolio visibility, and dynamic strategy alignment to prevent “strategy drift.”

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding: $180M** across 5 rounds (Pre-Seed, Series A $15M, Series B $25M, Series C $40M, Series D $100M). **Annual Revenue**: Estimated at $37M.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Goldman Sachs Alternatives (led Series D), Pear VC (led Pre-Seed), Emergence Capital (led Series A), Caffeinated Capital (led Series B), StepStone Group (led Series C). Cloud partner: Google Cloud. Customer: QBE North America.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **~98.3% year-over-year** to ~190 employees. Has active job postings for 19 roles across Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing. Expanded into UK and Canadian markets with dedicated sales directors.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic AI “Built In, Not Bolted On”**: The platform is deeply native to the insurance workflow, using deep reinforcement learning and LLMs to not just rank deals but execute quoting and provide reasoning, with a tiered automation maturity model.
- **Real-time Portfolio Optimization**: Differentiator vs. legacy core systems (described as “the problem”). Allows insurers to dynamically shift appetite and see real-time goal progress, solving the “strategy drift” problem where less than 25% of bound risk aligns with strategy.
- **Customer Results**: Claims a **90% reduction in time to quote**, an **89% reduction in systems used**, a **30% lift in high-appetite premiums**, and a **50% increased hit ratio**.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion & Market Penetration**: Actively scaling internationally (UK, Australia/ANZ) and across different insurance segments (MGAs, Mutuals, Carriers).
- **Product Maturity**: Pushing towards “Maturity Level 5” (Full autonomous AI underwriting within guardrails). Heavy investment in Forward Deployed Engineering and Machine Learning to customize and integrate the platform with large carrier legacy systems.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across technical roles (Staff Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineers, ML Engineers) and go-to-market roles (Sales Directors for ANZ and UK, Customer Success) to support rapid growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Described as “putting the ‘service’ back into enterprise SaaS” with deep insurance subject matter expertise. Rated **4.3/5 on Glassdoor** (Culture: 4.2, Career: 4.5, Compensation: 4.5).
- **Remote-First**: The vast majority of roles are listed as **Remote** (US, Canada, UK, Australia). Significant technical team presence in Canada (13% of workforce) and commercial presence in the UK.
- **Engineering Excellence**: The company is tackling hard technical problems at the intersection of deep RL, large language models, and enterprise workflows, offering a chance to work on “bleeding-edge” AI in a high-stakes industry. Heavy focus on Forward Deployed Engineering and ML.
- **Growth Trajectory**: With 100%+ headcount growth, $180M in funding, and a massive total addressable market (legacy core system replacement), the company offers strong career advancement potential.
- **Team**: Leadership includes veterans from top SaaS companies (Emergence Capital-backed) and deep insurance domain expertise.

## Sources
1. [federato.ai](https://www.federato.ai/)
2. [federato.ai/about](https://www.federato.ai/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/federato](https://www.linkedin.com/company/federato)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/federato](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/federato)

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