Job Description
Job Description
About the Role
We’re looking for a Software Engineer (SWE II / Senior SWE I) to join the team focused on CloudZero’s Kubernetes capabilities. This work includes collecting and instrumenting data from customer Kubernetes clusters, transferring it to the CloudZero platform, and surfacing it for user insight. With Kubernetes adoption among our customers at ~66%, this is a core area of our product and a major differentiator.
CloudZero’s platform uses server-less technologies to power a scalable, event-driven architecture. We ingest and normalize millions of real-time events from customer environments, leveraging tools like Snowflake, AWS Lambda, and AWS Step Functions to build a flexible data model that delivers unmatched insights into cloud cost.
Our engineering teams are small, collaborative, and run on Kanban flow. Together, we design, build, validate, and maintain high-impact, customer-facing features.
If you’re excited by large-scale container data challenges and enjoy working cross-functionally, this role is for you.
Responsibilities
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Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems focused on Kubernetes observability and cost data ingestion.
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Build scalable solutions to support customers running large, complex containerized workloads across clusters.
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Write clean, maintainable code with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and total cost of ownership.
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Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver features that provide actionable insights for Kubernetes users.
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Continuously improve our platform and engineering practices to enable fast iteration, high team ownership, and impactful product delivery.
Requirements
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3–5+ years building and maintaining complex backend systems in cloud environments.
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Experience working with large-scale data systems and pipelines.
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Proficient in Go, with hands-on experience building low-level systems on Kubernetes (e.g., DaemonSets, sidecars, custom controllers/operators).
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Familiarity with the Kubernetes ecosystem (Helm, kubectl, Prometheus), and ideally the Kubernetes API or internal tooling.
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Comfortable working in Python—our primary backend language.
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Strong SQL skills; experience with Snowflake is a plus.
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Pragmatic systems thinker who applies design patterns effectively.
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Collaborative mindset with experience partnering across product, engineering, and design teams.
About CloudZero:
Cloud cost management is one of the biggest challenges organizations face today. As cloud adoption continues to accelerate, so do the complexities and costs associated with it — and macroeconomic conditions only increase pressure to prove cloud efficiency. That’s why we built CloudZero: a SaaS platform at the intersection of next-generation cloud cost management and FinOps. CloudZero ingests billing and usage data from all cloud, SaaS, and PaaS providers, organizes it in real time according to our customers’ business structures, lets customers view it at any level of time or resource granularity, and ultimately empowers them to make more informed business decisions.
Since our founding in 2016, our mission has been to make efficient innovation a reality for every cloud-driven organization. At CloudZero, we believe every engineering decision is a buying decision, yet the cost conversation often bypasses the engineers who drive those determinations. To solve this, we’ve built a dynamic, single-page application that answers the complex, data-heavy questions every cloud-based organization needs to ask if they want to grow their company profitably.
To date, we’ve raised over $52 million from leading venture capital firms across the country. We’re solving problems of massive scale, business importance, and complexity in a space that needs it more than ever. We’re growing rapidly and would love for you to be a part of it!
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.
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.