CloudZero
Staff / Principal Software Engineer
San Francisco · Principal · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 47 days ago
PythonDistributed SystemsCode ReviewSQLBigQuerySnowflakeDatabricksAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesMachine LearningData EngineeringLeadershipMentoring
About the role
- CloudZero is hiring Staff and Principal Software Engineers across our engineering organization.
- These roles sit at the intersection of technical depth and product impact.
- The specific domain depends on where you land, but the bar and the opportunity are consistent across the org.
Responsibilities
- Make and communicate high-impact design decisions across teams and stakeholders
- Identify and drive improvements to performance, scalability, and reliability before they become incidents
- Raise the technical bar for the engineers around you through code review, design feedback, and direct mentorship
- Significant experience building and operating production backend systems at scale
- Collaborate with product, engineering leadership, and customers to scope problems and deliver solutions that move the business
- You use AI tools in your own data platform work.
- You can describe your own workflow and the failure modes you've worked around.
- Experience building or operating agents, telemetry systems, or observability tooling
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or another backend language
- comfort reading and reasoning about systems in languages you didn't write
- Experience with data pipelines, ETL frameworks, or stream processing in production environments
- Strong SQL and hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or similar)
- The ability to communicate technical complexity clearly to engineers, product, and leadership
- A track record of shipping, not just designing
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, especially in customer-managed environments
- Experience with AWS Step Functions, Lambda, or event-driven architectures
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy; you don't need a ticket to identify a problem worth solving
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or another backend language; comfort reading and reasoning about systems in languages you didn't write
Nice to have
- Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), distributed systems, and the tradeoffs that come with scale
Skills
- what did it cost to produce this outcome, for this customer, on this model.
- The largest cloud spenders on the planet already run on CloudZero, including Coinbase, Duolingo, DoorDash, and Shutterstock.
- Equal Opportunity Employer CloudZero is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.
Benefits
- Own significant technical domains end to end: architecture, implementation, and the long-term health of the systems you build
Company info
- CloudZero is the AI ROI Company.
Equal opportunity
- Employer CloudZero is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.
- All job offers are contingent upon the candidate passing background and reference checks.
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