Senior Platform Engineer

Who We Are

Join a team that puts its People First! Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for ten consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.

What We Do

Participates in the design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure and platform services that enable software engineering teams to develop, deploy, and operate applications efficiently and at scale. Responsible for building automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service platforms that improve developer productivity while ensuring reliability, security, and scalability. Works with cross-functional teams to understand infrastructure requirements and develop solutions to support business applications. Participate in operational support, incident response, and the development of infrastructure documentation and best practices.

HOW YOU'LL CONTRIBUTE

• Experience defining infrastructure and platform capabilities using a variety of IaC and automation technologies
• Tests and delivers engineering components on time
• Provides maintenance of developed solutions including regression testing and debugging
• Understands the goals of the customer, business and team and ensures work will have the greatest customer impact
• Build tools and produce technical documentation to improve engineering efficiency and drive alignment within the team
• Experience leading team of engineers in the design, development, and maintenance of engineering solutions for business applications or platforms
• Build test automation suites to ensure the quality of guest impacting products
• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives for assigned projects
• Performs maintenance, installations, upgrades, and other technical duties associated with the support of product applications platforms and/or product systems platforms
• Responsible for top-tier implementation and integration with backend databases
• Formulate and define system scope and objectives through research and fact- finding to develop or modify internal platform capabilities
• Required to perform duties outside of normal work hours based on business needs
• Other duties as assigned

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Normally requires BS Degree or equivalent work experience
• Typically have 5-7 years of directly related experience
• Having experience working with distributed team is preferred.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES (KSAs)

• Fluent in multiple scripting and IaC languages and platforms at an expert level
• Fluent with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and build tools
• Fluent with networking design & troubleshooting, and microservices architecture
• Expertise with multiple Cloud- based platforms and services
• Experience with various computer platforms and application environments
• Constantly updating personal technical and business knowledge and skills and mentoring others to increase the knowledge and skills of the team
• Must have conceptual understanding of platform technologies and services
• Strong organizational or Project Management skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

What We Offer

By choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First Culture celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion not simply because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it’s the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term.

First American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).

First American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.

Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.