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# Senior GCP Software Engineer

- **Company:** Insight Global
- **Location:** Sonoma, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), User Authentication, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Computer Simulation, Continuous Integration, Customer Data Management, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Scientific Computating, Software Engineering, Management of Software Versions, Data Logging, Data Processing, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, High Performance Computing, Software Security, Backend, Rate Limiting, Graphql, Api Design, Terraform, Grpc, Api Management, Docker
- **Published:** August 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/E1D67BCC9D4B43FE8FF847FDA7401F02/job/

## About the Role

* 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 - 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

## 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.


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