Staff Platform Engineer (DevOps)

Location: e123 is a Work From Anywhere company based in southern California with an entirely remote workforce from all over the US. This role can be based anywhere in the US (with the exception of IN, IL, PA, NE).

Why join e123?

e123 is transforming the distribution of health insurance in the United States while creating a new insurtech category. e123 helps businesses manage the complex world of health insurance distribution. We handle $3B in annual premium billings through a network of nearly 400,000 agents. We deliver a single, easy to use platform for clients to distribute and market insurance and benefits products at all levels. We are rapidly expanding our product suite to to address major pain points for enterprise carrier and distribution customers in this market vertical.

Our Mission

We’re on a mission to fix a broken system, making it easier and more reliable for millions of people to protect themselves against the unexpected by enabling insurance providers to better match individuals with the right health insurance solutions. This in turn enables accelerating growth for our clients. At e123, we deliver a powerful, widely-used core SaaS product in a premier position central to our industry, and our team knows as much as anyone about the complexities of the United States healthcare insurance distribution network.


This developer will work primarily on projects related to DevOps as well as the security 
of our platform. Support and work alongside a cross-functional engineering team on the 
latest technologies.

Role and responsibilities:

• Build, integrate, deploy and maintain development tools focusing on:
  • code deployment 
  • platform security
  • source control
  • system administration
  • configuration management
  • application performance
• Participate in system maintenance and application uptime activities
• Work on Security-focused development projects utilizing ColdFusion and associated technologies (Javascript, …)
• Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code
• Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
• Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments
• Have on-call responsibilities in rotation with the engineering team

What will help you succeed in this role:

• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale, preferably in a SaaS environment
• Understanding of secure systems deployment and software development (ie. OWASP)
• Natural tendency to automate repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Powershell, Bash, etc)
• Ability to understand complex problems and communicate them in simple terms to all levels of company
• AWS skills (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling)
• MS Windows Server, IIS and MS application skills
• MS SQL Server skills
• Version control system experience (e.g. Subversion, Git)
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI)
• Clear understanding of Disaster Recovery, Redundancy, Scalability
• Experience with IT assessments, audits/reviews. (ie. PCI, HIPAA, Best Practices Risk Assessments)
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies through self-learning
• Natural Curiosity and Initiative
• Ability to work effectively in a remote/decentralized environment