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# Staff Platform Engineer - Infrastructure at Kalepa

- **Company:** Kalepa
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kalepa/jobs/6181093004

## Job description

About Kalepa:

Insurance is a $7T global industry built on professional labor: underwriting, claims, pricing, operations, and distribution. Kalepa is building AI that can perform that work.

We create professional-grade AI systems for insurers: software that can read, reason, decide, and act inside real workflows and operate over long-time horizons. Kalepa begins by augmenting professionals with the tools to succeed at their jobs. That earns us the right to learn from real decisions, capture decision traces, and automate what can be automated successfully over time.

Our products are already in production with leading insurers, driving measurable outcomes and expanding across functions. The opportunity is far broader than any single workflow: to build the AI operating system for decision-making across insurance. For people who want to work on AI that matters, in a sector where correctness, trust, and real-world impact count, Kalepa is just getting started.

Kalepa is backed by leading investors such as IA Ventures and Inspired Capital, and our team brings experience from Facebook, Palantir, Google, Amazon, McKinsey, Mastercard, and Uber.

Our Values (This is important):

Many organizations have a dusty list of corporate values that no one ever follows. Kalepa is not one of those companies. Our values are designed to unlock the potential of our employees.

Success at Kalepa is bred from five core principles:

- Hustle and Determination - We hire people who take full ownership of their craft and relentlessly pursue excellence with speed and determination. We choose the hard problems and do not give up. This is the foundation of how we work and how we win.
- Deliver Customer Impact - We're obsessed with customer impact. Every feature, every line of code, every decision is measured against one question: does this help insurers make better decisions? If it doesn't drive speed, accuracy, or profitability for our customers, we don't build it.
- Meritocracy - We're building something exceptional, and that requires exceptional people and ideas. We have a high bar but we reward excellence with rapid growth. If you're the best at what you do, you'll thrive here.
- Transparency - We value honest, transparent communication over politics. We challenge ideas, not people. We say what needs to be said, even when it's hard. This is how we solve problems fast and find the truth.
- Experiment Relentlessly - Many of the problems we face have never been solved before. We tackle them by testing quickly, measuring rigorously, and iterating until we find the path forward. Speed of learning is our advantage.

In addition to our NY office, we have remote employees speaking 10+ languages across the globe. But we invest in bringing our people together both for regional meetups and global offsites (2021 - Playa Del Carmen | 2022 - Rome | 2023 - Buenos Aires | 2024 - Lisbon | 2025 - Cartagena).

Kalepa’s culture isn’t for everyone, and that’s ok. But for the people who are a fit, they can’t imagine working elsewhere.

About the role:

Salary range: $220k – $300k USD*

Location: Remote (USA)

We are looking for smart engineers who love to code, seek challenging problems, and appreciate recognition for excellent work. As part of the infrastructure team, you will work on the infrastructure and tooling that power our core platform. You’ll maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate operational workflows, and ensure we stay secure and compliant to the industry standards. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include improving infrastructure performance and reliability, monitoring and optimizing system cost, and collaborating with engineering teams to standardize environments and deployment patterns. You’ll help to maintain observability and incident response processes, and ensure the scalability of our cloud-based systems as we continue to grow.

You'll collaborate with a global team of full-stack, data, AI, and DevOps engineers to build scalable backend solutions as we continue to grow. We're a small team where individual contributions have an outsized impact on both our technology and our business.

You'll be right at home if you:

- Have 8+ years of software engineering or DevOps experience, ideally with time spent working on infrastructure, performance, security, or compliance.
- You're excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it.
- Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.
- Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop.
- Thrive on experimentation: you're comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before.
- Have strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving.
- Know Python (our main stack), though we're open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds.
- Have experience with serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments.
- Have strong knowledge of relational databases and their performance tuning, ideally PostgreSQL.
- Know terraform, IaaC best practices, Docker or similar tools.
- Bonus: experience with LLMs/generative AI, distributed systems

What you’ll get:

- Competitive salary (based on experience level)*.
- Significant equity options package.
- Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $7T global industry.
- 20 days of PTO a year.
- Global team offsites (2024 - Lisbon, 2025 - Cartagena).
- 100% covered medical, 100% covered vision and dental for individuals and families.
- Healthy living/gym stipend. Mobile phone bill stipend.
- Continuing education credits.
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution (regardless of employee contribution)

*The salary range listed is an estimate and will vary based on a variety of factors. Final compensation will be determined during the offer stage based on relevant experience, performance during the interview process, and geographic location, and may therefore differ from the posted range.

## About Kalepa

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kalepa provides a professional-grade AI platform that automates and augments commercial insurance underwriting, helping carriers make faster, more profitable risk decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Backed by venture capital)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on the website; the company was founded by technology veterans.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Insurance Technology (InsurTech), Artificial Intelligence, Commercial Insurance Underwriting
- **Target customers**: B2B; top-tier commercial insurance carriers, Managing General Agents (MGAs), and reinsurers globally.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To strengthen trust, with Professional Grade AI built for insurance." [kalepa.com](https://kalepa.com/company)

## Products & Services
- **Kalepa Underwriting Platform**: A modular, end-to-end AI-powered workspace for commercial underwriting. It covers the entire workflow from submission intake to portfolio management. Key modules include:
    - **Submission Ingestion**: Automatically classifies submissions and extracts data from hundreds of document types (ACORDs, SOVs, loss runs, etc.).
    - **Triage**: Prioritizes submissions most likely to bind and aligns them to appetite and guidelines.
    - **Clearance**: Detects conflicts, verifies completeness, and automates producer routing.
    - **Risk Analysis**: Surfaces critical risk insights, exposures, and third-party data in a single view.
    - **Rating**: Integrates with pricing models (Excel, external raters, internal systems) for scenario comparison.
    - **Quote & Bind**: Manages forms and generates decision-ready quote and binder documents.
    - **Portfolio Management**: Provides live visibility into portfolio performance, sets targets, and offers automated recommendations on product, rate, and appetite.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: The company has been recognized on FinTech Global’s InsurTech100 list for four consecutive years and was named to the 2025 AIFinTech100. [kalepa.com](https://kalepa.com/company)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by IA Ventures and Inspired Capital, along with leaders in technology and financial services. [kalepa.com](https://kalepa.com/company)
- **Growth Signals**: The platform reports significant customer results, including a **58% reduction in quote time**, a **960BP (basis points) combined ratio improvement**, and **31% more premium per underwriter**. The company has a global team spanning 10+ countries and is trusted by leading insurers. [kalepa.com](https://kalepa.com)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built AI**: Unlike general-purpose AI, Kalepa’s AI Ensemble Engine is built specifically for insurance, choosing the right model for each task and delivering explainable, verifiable results.
- **End-to-End Workflow**: Covers the entire underwriting lifecycle in a single pane of glass, from submission to portfolio steering, reducing friction across the board.
- **Proven Results**: Demonstrates measurable impact (faster quoting, better risk selection, improved profitability) with top-tier carriers, MGAs, and reinsurers.
- **Modular & Integrative**: Works out of the box, integrates with existing core systems, and adapts to existing workflows for rapid deployment ("live in weeks, not years").

## Strategic Focus
- **Product & AI Leadership**: Deepening its AI capabilities to handle the most complex risks with precision and reliability.
- **Global Expansion**: Growing its global team and customer base across 10+ countries.
- **Portfolio Steering**: Empowering insurers to manage their book of business in real-time, adjusting appetite and strategy based on empirical data.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a "meritocracy" that values transparency, customer impact, and relentless experimentation. The team emphasizes high standards, honest communication, and "winning together." [kalepa.com/careers](https://kalepa.com/careers)
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: **Remote-first** with a headquarters in New York City. The global team spans 10+ countries and speaks 10+ languages. Some roles are remote (US or Europe), while others are hybrid in NYC. [kalepa.com/careers](https://kalepa.com/careers)
- **Notable Perks**:
    - Competitive salaries and significant equity options.
    - 100% covered medical, vision, and dental for US employees and their families.
    - 401(k) employer contribution.
    - 20 days of PTO annually.
    - Continuing education credits, healthy living, and mobile phone stipends.
    - Annual international offsites (recent destinations include Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Rome, and Cartagena). [kalepa.com/careers](https://kalepa.com/careers)
- **Engineering Culture**: The team is building best-in-class AI for a massive industry ($7 trillion insurance market). Engineers are expected to take full ownership, experiment rapidly, and deliver quantifiable customer impact.

## Sources
1. [Kalepa Website](https://kalepa.com/)
2. [Kalepa Company Page](https://kalepa.com/company)
3. [Kalepa Careers Page](https://kalepa.com/careers)
4. [Kalepa Job Board (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/kalepa)
5. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/kalepa)

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