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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff / Principal Software Engineer - **Company:** Cloudzero Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Salary:** $220,000.0 - $290,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Code Review, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Standard Sql, Datadog, Snowflake, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Machine Learning Operations, Stream Processing, Data Pipelines, Databricks, Programming Languages - **Published:** June 6, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3ed65ad0ae99ed4b ## About the Role Do you have experience in Programming languages?, * Significant experience building and operating production backend systems at scale * Strong proficiency in Python and/or another backend language; comfort reading and reasoning about systems in languages you didn't write * Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), distributed systems, and the tradeoffs that come with scale * 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) * You use AI tools in your own data platform work. You can describe your own workflow and the failure modes you've worked around. Strategy-deck AI doesn't qualify; we want hands-on * You've built something that other internal teams have adopted. A library, a pattern, a service. * The ability to communicate technical complexity clearly to engineers, product, and leadership * A track record of shipping, not just designing, * Experience building or operating agents, telemetry systems, or observability tooling * Familiarity with Kubernetes, especially in customer-managed environments * Experience with AWS Step Functions, Lambda, or event-driven architectures * Background in FinOps, billing systems, or financial data infrastructure * Exposure to ML pipelines or AI workload cost modeling ## Description CloudZero is hiring Staff and Principal Software Engineers across our engineering organization. We're not filling a single seat. We're building a bench of senior technical talent across every team that makes CloudZero run. If you're the kind of engineer who wants to work on hard problems at real scale, own architecture decisions that matter, and see your work land directly in the hands of customers and operators, there's a place for you here. These roles sit at the intersection of technical depth and product impact. You'll be expected to lead from the front: designing systems, shaping roadmaps, mentoring engineers, and driving decisions that outlast any single sprint. The specific domain depends on where you land, but the bar and the opportunity are consistent across the org., * Own significant technical domains end to end: architecture, implementation, and the long-term health of the systems you build * Make and communicate high-impact design decisions across teams and stakeholders * Identify and drive improvements to performance, scalability, and reliability before they become incidents * Collaborate with product, engineering leadership, and customers to scope problems and deliver solutions that move the business * Raise the technical bar for the engineers around you through code review, design feedback, and direct mentorship * Operate with a high degree of autonomy; you don't need a ticket to identify a problem worth solving ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Debugging in the Dark](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark) - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [Making Data Warehouses fast. 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