Senior Software Engineer - Tooling 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. What’s 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 $73M from investors, including Cota Capital, Creandum, Uncorrelated Ventures, and Vintage Investment Partners. CAST AI has over 200 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 self-reliant people to help us fulfill this ambitious mission.

About the Team

The Tooling Team is responsible for creating and maintaining the infrastructure, tools, and resources that enable CAST AI product teams to develop, deploy, and operate software effectively. They provide the critical foundation on which product teams build, helping to speed up development and ensure reliability.

The team focuses on designing scalable, high-performance systems that meet the needs of engineering teams and also ensures internal company security requirements are covered. The team's goal is to build and maintain tooling and platforms that minimize friction for developers, enabling them to ship features quickly while addressing technical challenges such as performance, availability and improving developer experience.

As the company scales, the Tooling Team ensures the platform can support a growing and more complex organization and the evolving needs of the organization. Currently, the team is responsible for the observability platform, CI/CD pipelines and the local development setup, with the scope of ownership expected to expand as the company and the Tooling Team grow.

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Tooling Team. In this role, you will work on developing custom internal tooling to make software development, deployment and operation easier and more unified for our product teams, while also keeping in mind internal company security. You will use developer experience measurements to identify the areas to improve and work closely with product teams to gather requirements for the tooling. You will measure adoption of the tooling, the impact that it has on developer experience, and develop strategies to continuously improve these metrics with the tooling.

Responsibilities:

• Improve develop experience metrics: use developer experience measurements to identify where developer experience is suffering the most and create custom internal tooling to improve these metrics in a measurable way.
• Improve continuous Integration and Delivery: manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab Pipelines, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Helm, ensuring efficient and reliable deployment processes.
• Development environment management: enable other engineering teams by maintaining and extending the existing local development tooling managed by Tilt.
• Oversee incident management systems: integrate with incident management and alerting tools such as Opsgenie, Pagerduty, or similar to enhance our response capabilities and reduce downtime.
• Improve internal company security posture: manage and improve the security posture of our Kubernetes clusters and other internal components, by defining and enforcing security policies, while making sure to keep the development experience great by developing components that enable developers to be secure by default.

Requirements:

• Proficiency with Go
• Have a passion for automation and developer tooling
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a production environment
• An understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols, especially in and around Kubernetes
• A “yes we can” attitude
• Ability to work independently or with a group
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• You have to be physically in any of the European countries GMT 0 to GMT +3.

Benefits

• Join a fast-growing company at the forefront of cloud-native automation and Kubernetes technology.
• Enjoy a flexible, remote-first global environment.
• Equity options.
• Work from anywhere (some guidelines apply).
• Medical insurance
• Get quick feedback with a fast-paced workflow. Most feature projects are completed in 1 to 4 weeks.
• Spend 10% of your work time on personal projects or self-improvement.
• Learning budget for your professional and personal growth.
• Team-building budget and company events to connect with your colleagues.
• Equipment budget to ensure you have everything you need.
• Extra days off to help maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Earn a monthly salary up to 9000 € depending on the level of experience.