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. 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:

• 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 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.

Guidewire 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. If you think you may need disability-related accommodations, please email EmployAbility at [email protected], our disability partner, or schedule a call with an EmployAbility expert (calendar booking slot) for a confidential conversation.