Senior Software Engineer - Hosted Team

Why CAST AI

CAST AI is the leading Kubernetes automation platform for AWS GCP and Azure customers. The company is on a mission to deliver a fully automated Kubernetes experience. Whats unique about CAST AI is that its platform goes beyond monitoring clusters and making recommendations; it utilizes advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze and automatically optimize clusters saving customers 50% or more on their cloud spend improving performance and reliability and boosting DevOps and engineering productivity.

The company has raised nearly $200M from investors including Cota Capital Creandum Uncorrelated Ventures Vintage Investment Partners and others. CAST AI has nearly 300 employees globally and is headquartered in Miami Florida.

However this is merely the beginning. Our product roadmap is filled with exciting innovations that are yet to come. We are searching for intelligent motivated and selfreliant people to help us fulfill this ambitious mission.

Core values that hold us all together:

PRACTICE CUSTOMER OBSESSION. Focus on the customer journey and work backwards. Strive to deliver customer value and continuously solve customer problems. Listen to customer feedback act and iterate to improve customer experience.

LEAD. Take ownership and lead through action. Think and act on behalf of the entire company to build longterm value across team boundaries.

DEVELOP AND HIRE THE BEST. Strive to raise the performance bar by continuously investing in yourself the team and by hiring the best possible candidates for every position. Drive towards personal development and professional growth and mentor others to raise the collective bar.

EXPECT AND ADVOCATE CHANGE. Strive to innovate and accept the inevitable change that comes with innovation. Constantly welcome new ideas and opinions. Share insights responsibly with unwavering openness honesty and respect. Once a path is chosen be ready to disagree and commit to a direction.

Role overview

Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Hosted team the group responsible for enabling enterprise customers to run our platform inside their own infrastructure often in regulated or airgapped environments.

This role is handson and crossfunctional. Youll spend your time building tooling and automation to simplify deployment and upgrades writing and maintaining infrastructure code and working directly with customer engineering teams during onboarding and troubleshooting. A significant part of your work will involve automating tests and building a robust secure release pipeline to ensure the reliability of every deployment.

Youll also collaborate internally to ensure the platform is modular testable and resilient in diverse operating environments.

This is a great fit for someone who enjoys digging into systems solving infrastructure challenges and helping customers succeed with robust secure deployments.

Requirements

Technical Skills

• Cloud proficiency: Strong familiarity with at least one major cloud platform (AWS GCP or Azure) ideally youre confident navigating infrastructure across all three.
• Infrastructure as Code: Handson experience with Terraform is essential. You should be comfortable modeling and managing complex infrastructure in code.
• Programming expertise: Proficiency in Golang this is our primary language for backend and tooling.
• CI/CD and release engineering: Familiarity with modern release workflows and tooling including GitLab and GitHub. Experience designing or maintaining secure reliable pipelines is a plus.
• Distributed systems troubleshooting: Solid diagnostic skills across OS networking containers and transport layers. You should enjoy rootcausing subtle issues in complex systems.
• Cloudnative deployment: Prior experience deploying and operating systems in secure or airgapped environments is a strong advantage.

Soft Skills

• Clear and proactive communicator: Youll regularly work across engineering teams and directly with enterprise customers strong written and spoken communication is critical.
• Strong English fluency both verbal and written.
• Startup mindset: You thrive in ambiguity adapt quickly and prefer action over waiting for perfect certainty.
• Collaborative problemsolver: You bring a constructive how can we make this work attitude to technical and interpersonal challenges.
• Customer empathy: You understand the pressures our customers face and aim to make their experience as smooth and successful as possible.

Whats in it for you

• Join a fastgrowing cuttingedge company thats redefining cloudnative automation and optimization.
• Work with a global team of cloud experts and innovators passionate about pushing the boundaries of Kubernetes technology.
• Enjoy a flexible remotefirst work environment with opportunities to travel and engage with customers worldwide.
• Competitive compensation package equity options and extensive benefits.
• Short feedback loop. We have an obsession with customer satisfaction. The ship features fast and gets instant feedback. Feature projects tend to be completed in 1 to 4 weeks depending on the scope.

• 10% time to focus on selfimprovement or personal projects.
• Monthly salary from(gross) depending on the level of experience.