Senior Engineer, Developer Experience

Role at a Glance: Senior Engineer, Developer Experience at Cover Genius (Sydney, Australia | Hybrid | Full time)

• The role: A senior engineer on the Developer Experience (DevEx) team at Cover Genius, a global embedded protection (insurtech) company. You’ll help own the technical direction of the tools, platforms, and processes that let engineers build with speed, confidence, and security, working closely with product engineering, Infrastructure, and Security teams.
• Experience: 5+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps, with a track record of designing, shipping, and operating internal platforms or tooling used by other engineers. Experience building agentic AI systems for engineering workflows is also required. The posting lists a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, with postgraduate study desirable.
• Day to day: Design and evolve the “golden path” (shared libraries, base images, CI/CD templates, Helm charts), build automation and internal tooling, and run developer surveys and interviews to track DORA and SPACE metrics. You’ll also build agentic AI workflows for code review and test generation, embed security (SAST, DAST, SCA) into pipelines, and mentor other DevEx engineers.
• Technical skills: CI/CD (GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or Argo Workflows), programming and scripting (Python, Go, TypeScript, or Bash), and containers and Kubernetes delivery (Docker, Helm, Kustomize) with infrastructure as code such as Terraform. Familiarity with developer portals like Backstage, plus fluency with AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
• Leadership and judgement: A customer-centric mindset focused on making other engineers’ work easier, with the discipline to validate problems before solving them and measure the results afterwards. Pragmatic technical judgement, a collaborative approach that earns trust through evidence, a strong sense of accountability, and curiosity about AI.

About The Company

Cover Genius is the global infrastructure for embedded protection. Active in over 60 countries and all 50 US States, we protect the customers of the world’s largest digital companies, including Klarna, Revolut, Stripe, Priceline, Agoda, Booking.com, Turkish Airlines, Tongcheng Travel, eBay, and Uber, with seamless, end-to-end experiences. Cover Genius has protected more than 73M customers globally across 240M policies with USD $3.2BN in gross written sales.

Coming off a stellar year with 40% YoY revenue growth and a recent $100M capital raise, putting our valuation at $1.9BN, we are accelerating into our next phase of growth. As part of our team, you’ll help drive our AI-first roadmap, developing hyper-personalization engines, agentic distribution, and automated claims infrastructure, while building the scalable technology powering the fast-growing $70B embedded protection market.

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