About this Senior Software Engineer (Platform Engineering) role at Guidewire
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. PDO’s 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 PDO’s goals to improve service reliability, enhance security and compliance, and enable new GenAI-powered features that span our product portfolio.
Job Description
What You’ll Do
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 — you'll tackle problems where the naive solution doesn't 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 don't do what we need, we fix them and send PRs — not fork and forget.
What We're Looking For
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 it's 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
Bonus Points If You...
Have battle-tested Terraform or CloudFormation chops and opinions about infrastructure-as-code done right
Write shell scripts without apology when that's 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
See What We're Building
Get a feel for the engineering challenges and decisions behind the platform:
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 www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.
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 it's applicable to the position.
