Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Openly
$138.4-207.6k
+ Equity
Home insurance platform
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Home insurance platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$138.4-207.6k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower independent insurance agents to deliver a modern, efficient, and superior customer experience.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of professional/production experience developing and using infrastructure automation tools and techniques
- Proficient in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Shell, Go) for automation, data analysis, and system administration tasks
- Proven track record of creating improvements in business-critical systems around stability, performance, and scalability
- Demonstrated ability to deliver complete systems from start to finish in a reasonable time frame
- Understands the consequences of running software in production and are willing to share your knowledge with the rest of the team
- Ability to explain complex technical challenges to non-technical audiences
- Experience with operational aspects of large scale databases in a cloud environment
- Go experience or willing to learn - *Previous experience developing in Go is not a requirement to apply
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What the job involves
- We're hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to be a part of our team to build the technology infrastructure for Openly's insurance platform
- You will play a crucial role in building, testing, and maintaining the infrastructure and the overall technology ecosystem that powers our insurance products and customer experiences
- Build internal tooling to help other engineers and the rest of the company understand and operate our system
- Design and implement security best practices for our team and infrastructure
- Automate repetitive tasks to reduce toil. This includes building and maintaining CI/CD infrastructure, developing CLI and ChatOps tools, and automating manual processes
- Build infrastructure as code using declarative provisioning tools
- Develop high signal-to-noise ratio monitoring and alerting policies and technology to help us meet our SLOs
- Lead incident response and postmortems
- Contribute to important architectural and operational decisions like microservices vs. monoliths, deployment techniques, technologies, policies, etc
- Participate in a regular on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 availability and rapid response to production incidents
Application process
- We've designed our hiring process with you, the candidate, in mind. At every step, you have the chance to present your strengths and learn more about what makes Openly a great place to work
Our take
Openly has responded to a perceived gap in the market: while consumers are increasingly buying home insurance through independent agents, the products those agents can offer have not kept up with what’s possible, resulting in wasted time, wasted money, and outdated risk underwriting.
Openly's homeowner insurance platform sells exclusively through independent agencies. The platform watches and updates more than 19,000 vendor profiles daily across 19 states and 91 different industries, detecting changes to key business information, privacy documentation, terms of service agreements and public records. This increases transparency of the risk between buyers and suppliers, which sets Openly apart from its competitors in the insurtech market.
It has grown in-force premium by more than 500% year over year and has already achieved double-digit new sales market share in the majority of its states. The company is taking huge steps and has even partnered with Mastercard to integrate Mastercard's RiskRecon cyber risk data into its platform so that organizations can better understand their risk profile. It now has plans to expand its home insurance product to more states and agencies and to enhance its technology and insurance product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2025
$123m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2023
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $360.7m
Company benefits
- Company equity
- Remote-First Culture: With employees in 40 states and counting, we promoted #remotelife long before it was adopted by other companies
- WFH Setup: Day 1, you'll receive a new laptop, a $1,500 allowance to spend on setting up your home workplace, and a monthly internet stipend
- Real Work-Life Balance: Ensuring you can spend valuable time with friends and family is a priority. We offer flexible PTO and a generous parental leave policy
- 401k Company Contribution: We love working here, but who wants to work forever? Take advantage of our 401K plan and generous company contribution
- Health and Wellness: Your well-being comes first. We offer a variety of plans to suit your needs, ranging from the basics to supplemental coverages
Company HQ
Columbus, Boston, MA
Leadership
Ty Harris
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied at MIT before working as a Lecturer at MIT and Northeastern. Went on to spend 12 years at Liberty Mutual Insurance. Co-founded Quote Hopper in June 2017 and, after passing this onto an agency to run, co-founded Openly that August.
Matt Wielbut
(Co-Founder & CTO)Began their career with almost 8 years at Goldman Sachs before co-founding Recitate and Elements Insurance. Used this experience to co-found Openly with Ty.
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