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title: 'Senior Platform Engineer at Bestow'
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# Senior Platform Engineer at Bestow

- **Company:** Bestow
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $145k–$171k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bestow/01b0f394-fc75-48b7-a238-77b1add08e97

## Job description

## ABOUT BESTOW

Life insurance is one of the world's most important products. It's also one of the hardest to build, distribute, and modernize. Bestow exists to change that. Bestow is a leading vertical technology platform serving some of the largest and most innovative life insurers. Our platform unifies the fragmented, legacy value chain, enabling carriers to launch products in weeks instead of years. Carriers choose us to scale and operate at unprecedented speed, powered by AI and automation. Bestow isn't selling policies. We're building the infrastructure that helps an entire industry move faster, reach more people, and deliver on its promise. Backed by leading investors (Goldman Sachs, Hedosophia, NEA, Valar, 8VC) and trusted by major carriers, Bestow is powered by a team that moves with precision, purpose, and heart. If you want to help reimagine a centuries-old industry with lasting impact, join us. Bestow offers flexible remote/hybrid work, meaningful benefits, equity, and substantial growth opportunities. Bestow uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit [E-Verify.gov](http://e-verify.gov).

## ABOUT THE TEAM

The engineering team is responsible for all technology powering Bestow and the Bestow Platform. We support our employees, consumers, and enterprise partners by delivering reliable, secure, and scalable systems. Our functional teams include product engineering, infrastructure, IT, data and analytics, mar-tech, and program management. We work closely with product management and design to build the right solutions and continuously improve our platform. This role reports to the Manager of Engineering and is open to remote employees in the U.S. (48 contiguous states only.)

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll own the implementation of technical projects that improve our platform’s scalability, reliability, and developer experience. You’ll independently execute scoped initiatives, automate infrastructure, and build internal tools that help product teams move faster and safer. You’ll collaborate closely with other platform engineers and cross-functional stakeholders, applying your engineering judgment to deliver clean, maintainable solutions. As you grow into the role, you’ll take on ownership of more complex systems and begin influencing architectural choices and team processes. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on solving problems through automation and wants to level up as a systems thinker.

Projects you might work on: Develop and Maintain Cloud Infrastructure

- Implement and evolve infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
- Automate and monitor our Kubernetes-based platform and CI/CD pipelines.
- Contribute to infrastructure tooling that improves repeatability, safety, and visibility.

Support Developer Productivity

- Build CLI tools, shared libraries, and scripts to accelerate development workflows.
- Participate in resolving developer friction by improving build/test/deploy loops.
- Help define standards for service configuration, secrets management, and app-level observability.

Contribute to Platform Resilience

- Implement dashboards, alerts, and runbooks for services owned by platform engineering.
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and follow-up improvements.
- Participate in a primary on-call weekly rotation to maintain system reliability, respond to platform incidents, and perform blameless root-cause analysis.
- Propose and prototype changes to improve availability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

## WHO YOU ARE

- 5+ years of professional experience working with cloud infrastructure (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure).
- You’re familiar with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi and understand CI/CD workflows.
- You write clean, maintainable code and have experience in at least one scripting or programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Bash, TypeScript).
- You have hands-on experience utilizing AI agents (e.g., Claude Code) for engineering tasks, demonstrating an ability to effectively direct agents through clear context, explicit constraints, and deliberate planning.
- You’ve worked with containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- You understand version control workflows and regularly participate in code reviews.
- You’re a strong communicator, take ownership of your work, and collaborate well with others.
- You’re eager to grow and take on more architectural and operational responsibilities.

## TOTAL REWARDS

At Bestow, we’re proud to be awarded for our team members, innovative products, and culture. Our standard benefits include:

- Competitive salary and equity based on role
- Policies and managers that support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave programs
- 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
- Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote
- Remote and WFH options, as well as a beautiful, state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum, for those who prefer an office setting
- Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives

Recent Employer Awards include:

- Best Place for Working Parents 2023 + 2024 + 2025
- Great Place to Work Certified, 2022 + 2023 + 2024 + 2025
- Built In Best Places to Work, 2022 + 2023 + 2025
- Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Texas 2022 + 2023
- Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance 2022 + 2023 + 2024

We value diversity at Bestow. The company will hire, recruit, and promote regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every team member. Thanks for considering a job at Bestow!

## About Bestow

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bestow provides a leading SaaS platform for life insurance carriers to modernize their new business, underwriting, and administration workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: Dallas, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Melbourne O'Banion (CEO) and Jonathan Abelmann (President)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Insurtech / Life Insurance Software
- **Target Customers**: B2B – Life insurance carriers looking to digitize and streamline their operations (new business, underwriting, administration).
- **Mission/Purpose**: To modernize the life insurance industry by providing cutting-edge technology and data solutions that reduce costs, maximize efficiency, and drive growth for carriers.

## Products & Services
- **Bestow Platform (End-to-End Solution)**: A comprehensive SaaS suite for life carriers covering digital quote, illustration, and application journeys; a sophisticated underwriting engine and workbench; payment, billing, and policy delivery services; and customer/support portal experiences. Supports term life, final expense, IUL, and more.
- **Modular Solutions**: Carriers can implement individual components (e.g., just the underwriting engine or just the administration portal) to modernize specific parts of their business.
- **TPA Services**: Full third-party administration services trusted by top carriers.
- **Recommendation Engine**: An AI-driven tool to drive underwriting efficiency and cost reduction.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric (Total Funding)**: $422.5M total funding across 8 rounds, including a $120M Series D in 2021 from Goldman Sachs and Smith Point Capital, and a $50M debt financing round in 2025.
- **Key Metric (Annual Revenue)**: Estimated at $145.9M.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Goldman Sachs, Smith Point Capital, Hedosophia, New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
- **Growth Signals**: 31.9% year-over-year headcount growth (207 employees); active international presence in Pakistan and Colombia; recently sold its direct-to-consumer carrier (Bestow Life Insurance Company) to Sammons Financial Group in 2024 to focus entirely on the B2B SaaS platform.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed & Efficiency**: Promises to bring new life insurance products to market in months, not years, and to reduce carriers' cost to acquire a customer by as much as 45%.
- **Deep Insurance Expertise**: Combines top tech talent with a leadership team that has deep experience in insurance and financial services.
- **Proven Track Record**: Has a live, white-labeled platform trusted by top carriers, with a track record of rapid implementation (as fast as 4 months).
- **Modularity & Flexibility**: Offers both end-to-end and modular solutions, allowing carriers to modernize at their own pace and focus on their biggest pain points.

## Strategic Focus
- **B2B SaaS Pivot**: Following the sale of its own insurance carrier, Bestow is now purely a technology partner for other carriers.
- **Product Expansion**: Continuing to build out its platform to support more product types (IUL, final expense) and distribution channels (agent portals).
- **Cost & Efficiency Leadership**: Emphasizing its ability to lower carriers' costs and improve underwriting efficiency through automation and data-driven decision-making.
- **International Growth**: Expanding its workforce and likely its client base internationally, with offices in Pakistan and Colombia.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: Bestow is a "remote-first, results-first" company, allowing employees to work where they work best. There is also an office in Dallas for those who prefer an in-person setting.
- **Comprehensive Benefits**: 100% coverage of healthcare premiums (medical, dental, vision) for employees, dependents, and domestic partners; flexible PTO; equity and bonus opportunities for all employees; pre-tax retirement and FSA programs; scholarships for education and enrichment.
- **Award-Winning Workplace**: Recognized as an award-winning workplace with a strong emphasis on employee well-being and work-life balance.
- **High-Growth Environment**: With 31.9% YoY headcount growth and a recent strategic pivot, the company offers significant opportunities for impact and career growth.
- **Strong Engineering Culture**: Emphasizes modern tech stacks and a test-and-learn approach; actively hiring for engineering roles (Golang, Full Stack).

## Sources
1. [bestow.com](https://www.bestow.com/)
2. [bestow.com/careers](https://www.bestow.com/careers)
3. [bestow.com/about](https://www.bestow.com/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/bestowtech](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bestowtech)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/bestow](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bestow)

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