Staff DevOps Engineer, Kin Insurance
Platform Operations
$140-180k
+ Equity through Restricted Stock Units
More information about location
Personalized home insurance platform
Be an early applicant
Personalized home insurance platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-180k
+ Equity through Restricted Stock Units
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To reimagine home insurance for every new normal.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience in DevOps or related roles, with a strong focus on CI/CD automation and infrastructure management
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including thoughtful pushback
- Proven success mentoring engineers
- Demonstrated success in creating compliant, self-service delivery pipelines
- Proficiency in GitHub Workflows and Actions for orchestrating CI/CD pipelines
- Strong skills with Terraform/OpenTofu for infrastructure as code (IaC) development
- Deep knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, RDS, Redis, Lambda, and IAM
- Strong shell scripting skills, Docker, and YAML
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while finding ways to preempt firedrills
- A fast learner, ready to bring previous knowledge to this position and continue developing along the way
Desirable
- Ruby on Rails
- Sidekiq
- Datadog
- Tonic
- Spacelift
- Decoupling monoliths
What the job involves
- As Staff DevOps Engineer on Kin’s Platform Operations team, you’ll be a key part of building the technology and culture that empowers our engineers to innovate securely at speed
- Our primary tech stack is Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL databases, with Terraform for IaC and delivery supported by GitHub Actions and Spacelift stacks that take code live to AWS many times a day
- In your highly cross-functional role, you’ll be working with people across the tech org and beyond, bringing our infrastructure and development platform up to new standards and building out solutions for secure self-service and a delightful - but not insulated - developer experience
- Continuously improving automation and tooling to streamline deployment processes and increase efficiency and self-service functionality
- Supporting a positive and proactive culture of collaboration across Kin
- Utilizing your understanding of AWS services and working with peers to optimize infrastructure performance, scalability, resilience, and cost-efficiency
- Designing and implementing solutions to ensure system changes continuously adhere to regulatory compliance and support Kin’s security posture
- Respond to issues, incidents and problems in real time
- Working with engineers to build their understanding and skills for good citizenship of their infrastructure and pipelines
- Diving deep with internal stakeholders to make sure our infrastructure and development platform are mutually beneficial to our application and data architecture
- Implementing, monitoring, logging, and alerting in Datadog to ensure high availability and performance of our systems
- Collaborating with IT and Security on RBAC
- Mentoring and supporting teammates
- Updating documentation
- Staying up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies
Application process
- Deadline to apply: 7 November 2025 at 05:00 GMT
Our take
The setup process for home insurance can be difficult and time-consuming, particularly for complex and risky properties. Legacy insurance providers rely on users and brokers to insert uniform data, an approach that is not very accurate considering the idiosyncrasies of each individual property.
Kin Insurance works directly with consumers to provide bespoke and affordable home insurance. The company's software imports thousands of variables based on third-party data in order to provide a more personalized approach to home insurance. Data is also collected from aerial and satellite imagery, government records, and building permits to ensure a house is covered from localized threats such as wildfire, hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Recognizing the antiquated and one-size-fits-all nature of the current home insurance landscape, Kin Insurance has taken an innovative approach by focusing on data collection. Through these means, the company claims that it can offer personalized insurance that can be negotiated directly through its communication channels, ensuring that consumers can access the exact insurance they need without having to pay more than is required. Strong funding, raised across several rounds, will allow Kin to expand its network and business reach.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
Sep 2025
$50m
SERIES E
Feb 2024
$15m
SERIES D
Total funding: $376m
Company benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Commuter benefit plan
- 401k
- Flex spending accounts
- Support for continuing education and professional development
- Training, development, and networking opportunities via Sales Assembly
- Flexible PTO
- Onsite gym membership
- Company-provided lunch each month
- Daily snacks
- Sodas, unlimited flavored water, & coffee
Company HQ
River North, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Sean Harper
(CEO & Co-Founder)Sean worked as a BCG Associate for 5 years before founding FeeFighters.com and working for 2 years at Groupon. After a year as CPO of 2Checkout, they co-founded Kin Insurance, serving since as CEO.
Lucas Ward
(Member of the Board of Directors & Co-Founder)Having studied at Southeast Missouri State University, Lucas spent half a decade at Accenture, before a combined 3 years at ThoughtWorks and Fundspire. They left their CTO position at Rippleshot in 2015 to co-found Kin Insurance in January 2016.
Vivek Vaid
(CTO)Previously CTO at BRANDED, FourKites, Chief Data Officer at Uptake and Head of Technology at Morningstar.
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