Responsibilities
- Design and maintain Pulumi modules that provision reliable, cost-efficient cloud resources.
- Own infrastructure end to end with no clicking through consoles.
- Instrument systems so that failures surface quickly and debugging happens with data, not guesswork.
- Build observability into everything so you know about problems before customers do.
- Automate deployments, scaling, backups, and limit changes; if humans are doing it repeatedly, build a system to do it instead.
- Balance automation intelligently, building solutions to real problems rather than automating for its own sake.
- Partner with Product Engineering to help teams design resilient services, review architectures for operational complexity, and build deployment pipelines that enable safe and fast shipping.
- Optimize for cost and performance; CloudZero's business is helping others optimize cloud costs, and we should be exemplars of efficient cloud usage ourselves.
Requirements
- 3 to 5+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems in AWS.
- Strong skills in Python and Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi or Terraform.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Datadog.
- Proven ability to debug production issues under pressure.
- Values thoughtful, reliable system design over reactive hero efforts.
- Strong documentation habits to support long-term team clarity and system stability.
- Ability to clearly explain complex technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.
- Excited to take ownership of infrastructure and solve operational challenges at scale.
Nice to Have
- Experience with frontier AI models such as Claude, Codex, or Gemini.
Additional Information
- 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.
- CloudZero is unable to sponsor employment visas. Candidates must have permanent authorization to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.
