Senior GCP Developer

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a Senior GCP Software Engineer for a cutting-edge wildfire risk modeling and simulation technology company. This candidate will serve as a key technical contributor responsible for developing the cloud platform that powers large-scale simulation workloads and delivers critical risk intelligence to customers. The ideal candidate has a strong background in backend software engineering, Google Cloud Platform, API development, cloud security, and distributed systems. This individual will work closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to build reliable, scalable infrastructure while helping shape the future architecture of a mission-driven product used by insurance carriers, utilities, municipalities, and fire agencies. This is an opportunity to join a rapidly growing startup, influence technical direction, and receive equity ownership while solving meaningful real-world challenges.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience

• Strong Python development experience for backend services and data processing

• 3+ years of hands-on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience

• Experience building and supporting production backend systems

• Experience designing and deploying customer-facing APIs (REST, gRPC, or GraphQL)

• Authentication, authorization, and multi-tenant access control experience

• Docker and Kubernetes experience

• Strong cloud and application security knowledge

• Experience with logging, monitoring, observability, metrics, and tracing

• Experience operating cloud-based applications in production environments

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Experience building developer-facing API products

• API versioning, rate limiting, and documentation experience

• Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code experience

• CI/CD pipeline development and automation

• Experience orchestrating large-scale batch or scientific computing workloads

• Experience handling sensitive or regulated customer data

• Startup or early-stage company experience

• Geospatial data experience

• Simulation pipeline experience

• High-performance computing (HPC) exposure

• Experience supporting insurance, financial, utility, or government-related technology environments