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As a Site Reliability Engineer III, on the Platform team, you will play a key role in designing, building, and operating the foundational infrastructure that powers Guidewire's SaaS platform. You will focus on automation, reliability, scalability, and operability - ensuring our multi-tenant cloud platform consistently meets both functional and non-functional requirements. You will work closely with product development teams to influence system design, improve resilience, and ensure production readiness, while building the tools and frameworks that enable efficient, global, follow-the-sun operations.Job Description\nWhat You'll Do\nDrive Reliability, Automation & Scale:\nDesign, build, and operate highly reliable, scalable infrastructure for a multi-tenant SaaS platform.\nAutomate deployment, provisioning, and operational workflows across cloud infrastructure and applications.\nDevelop internal tools, services, and frameworks to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.\nParticipate in a 24x7 follow-the-sun on-call rotationto support critical production systems.\nImprove Platform & Infrastructure:\nContribute to core platform systems by building features, resolving issues, and enhancing reliability.\n\nPartner with development teams to ensure systems meet availability, performance, and scalabilityrequirements.\n\nProactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and failure modes, and implement solutions before they impact customers.\n\nObservability, Incident Management & Resilience:\nBuild and maintain observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards).\n\nDefine and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and reliability metrics.\n\nLead or contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems.\n\nDrive improvements toward self-healing systems and reduced operational toil.\n\nSecurity & Identity:\nDesign and support secure access patterns, including SSO, SAML, and OAuth-based authentication systems.\n\nEnsure platform services meet security and compliance standards.\n\nEnablement & Collaboration:\nCollaborate across engineering teams, providing guidance, feedback, and hands-on contributions.\n\nCreate and maintain documentation, runbooks, and training materials.\n\nMentor engineers and promote best practices in reliability engineering and automation.\n\nWho You Are\nInfrastructure Development:\nStrong programming skills in Python or Go(Java/Spring Boot is a plus).\n\nDeep experience with AWSand building/operating production systems at scale.\n\nHands-on expertise with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Helm, CNI, and Ingress networking.\n\nStrong understanding of Kubernetes primitives and patterns (deployments, services, operators, etc.).\n\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code(Terraform, Terragrunt, or similar).\n\nSolid understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals.\n\nObservability & Operations:\nExperience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or CloudWatch.\n\nFamiliarity with incident management practices and production support in a microservices environment.\n\nExperience with messaging/streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, SQS) and relational databases (e.g., Aurora, RDS) is a plus.\n\nSecurity & Identity:\nWorking knowledge of SSO, SAML, OAuth, and identity providers (Okta is a plus).\n\nExperience with AWS IAM(roles, policies, IRSA), VPC security groups, and Kubernetes security primitives (RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, secrets management).\n\nDevOps & Delivery:\nExperience with CI/CD and GitOps tools such as GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Jenkins, FluxCD, or Bitbucket.\n\nComfortable working in agile environments (Scrum, Kanban).\n\nMindset & Collaboration:\nStrong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with a proactive, systems-thinking mindset.\n\nPassion for automation: “If you have to do it more than once, automate it.”\n\nExcellent communication skills and ability to work across distributed teams.\n\nA collaborative team player who can influence, mentor, and lead through technical expertise.\n\nDemonstrated ability to leverage AI and data-driven insightsto improve productivity and outcomes.\n\n Preferred Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience\n\nExperience supporting large-scale SaaS platforms\n\nAWS or Kubernetes certifications\n\nExposure to modern platform frameworks such as KubeVela (OAM) or Crossplane\n\nContributions to open-source projects\n\nWhy Guidewire?\nWork on a mission-critical global platform used by leading P&C insurers worldwide\n\nSolve complex, real-world infrastructure problems at genuine scale\n\nBe part of a collaborative, high-impact engineering culture grounded in integrity, rationality, and collegiality\n\nOpportunity to shape the future of a rapidly evolving cloud platform\n\nA culture of curiosity and innovation where engineers are empowered to leverage AI and emerging technologies.\n\nAbout Guidewire\nGuidewire 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.\nAs 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.\nFor more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.\nGuidewire 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 it's applicable to the position.\nGuidewire is proud to be a disability inclusive employer. We are committed to providing individualized accommodations and support to candidates for any part of our hiring process. 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