Senior Software Engineer (Platform Engineering)

Summary

This role is part of Product Development & Operations (PDO) the organization responsible for building and operating the Guidewire Cloud Platform and products that our customers run in production every day. PDOs FY26 priorities center on secure scalable and efficient platform operations accelerating AI cloud and data platform adoption and ensuring every customer is successful referenceable and realizing measurable value.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Platform Engineering you will help build and evolve the Kubernetes-native multi-tenant cloud platform (GWCP/Atmos) that underpins hundreds of services and AI-powered capabilities across Guidewire. Your work will directly support PDOs goals to improve service reliability enhance security and compliance and enable new GenAI-powered features that span our product portfolio.

Job Description

• Own things end-to-end. Pick up a problem design the solution ship it to production and keep it running. No throwing code over a wall.

• Build core platform components the kind of infrastructure that hundreds of services depend on. Your code matters at a foundational level.

• Design for elegance under complexity. Workflows automation developer tooling youll tackle problems where the naive solution doesnt survive contact with production.

• Collaborate across teams on technical designs. We value well-argued RFCs and design docs over top-down mandates.

• Contribute upstream. When open-source tools dont do what we need we fix them and send PRs not fork and forget.

• 8 years building and operating systems in SaaS/PaaS environments at enterprise scale

• Deep Kubernetes expertise not just kubectl apply but understanding schedulers controllers CRDs networking and the broader ecosystem

• Strong cloud fundamentals (AWS preferred Azure/GCP also welcome) you know the difference between what the cloud gives you and what you have to build yourself

• Proficiency in Go Java or Python with hands-on backend service development (Go is our primary language bonus if its yours too)

• Solid distributed systems intuition you think about failure modes consistency trade-offs and what happens at 3 AM when traffic spikes

• Container-native mindset Docker and friends are second nature not something you Google each time

• Have battle-tested Terraform or CloudFormation chops and opinions about infrastructure-as-code done right

• Write shell scripts without apology when thats the right tool for the job

• Are a polyglot who picks languages based on the problem not habit and can articulate the trade-offs

• Practice TDD and pair programming and can explain why not just how

• Have strong opinions (loosely held) about platforms like Mesos Cloud Foundry OpenShift or serverless architectures

Get a feel for the engineering challenges and decisions behind the platform:

• Why Hybrid Tenancy Is the Right Choice (Part 1)

• Why Hybrid Tenancy Is the Right Choice (Part 2)

• Log Management & Observability on GWCP

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage innovate and grow efficiently. We combine digital core analytics and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540 insurers in 40 countries from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600 successful projects supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration localization and innovation.

For more information please visit and follow us on Twitter: @GuidewirePandC.

Guidewire Software Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace and believe that a diversity of perspectives abilities and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color ancestry religion sex national origin citizenship marital status age sexual orientation gender identity gender expression veteran status or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where its applicable to the position.