# Platform Engineer at Harper

- Company: Harper
- What the company does: You make one call, we make the rest. Harper learns your business, works every market that can write it, and brings back the right coverage at the right price. Backed by Peak XV, Y Combinator and Antler.
- Company website: https://www.harperinsure.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harperinsure/3f450d2b-a1ae-4fe6-8ffc-76eaadcd5b43
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/harper-platform-engineer/

## About the role

You're an infrastructure-focused engineer with depth across databases, AWS, networking, observability, SRE, CI/CD, and AI tooling. You build the systems and tooling the rest of engineering depends on—optimized for performance, reliability, and developer velocity.

## What they're looking for

- You've owned production systems at scale—not contributed to, owned, you got paged when they broke
- You write code with AI (Cursor, Claude Code) and know how to leverage it for infrastructure work
- You have depth across at least two of: databases, cloud infrastructure (AWS), networking, observability, or CI/CD
- You've designed systems that survive real load—retries, DLQs, back pressure, idempotency, the whole stack
- You care about developer experience—the tools other engineers use are as much your product as the customer-facing ones
- You'd rather build the system that prevents the fire than firefight forever

Tags: Engineering