Senior Software Engineer - Cost Optimization Team

Why CAST AI

CAST AI is the leading Kubernetes cost optimization 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.

To date the company has raised $73M from investors including Cota Capital Creandum Uncorrelated Ventures and Vintage Investment Partners. CAST AI has more than 120 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.

These are the 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.

What does Cost Optimization Team do

At cost optimization team our day is usually full of challenges. Have you ever encountered the situation where you need to expand your cloud infrastructure in order for certain workloads to be deployed and once the demand is low to cut back on your cloud spendings Most of us probably did or at least know the many paths that need to be taken in order to achieve that.

One of the teams responsibilities is to make sure that whenever a customer is about to deploy somethingthe burden of making sure that things are running & not costing unnecessary money is uplifted from them. These are just couple small pieces of a bigger puzzle. To get into a more detailed perspective try to answer the following questions:

• What happens when the demand for resources decreases What should we do
• What kind of instance types to use (spot vs ondemand)
• What to do when cloud provider claims all of the spot instances back Can we predict that
• What is the most efficient way to handle all of the workloads while taking into account both cost & efficiency metrics
• What is the visibility of all of the decisions that our engine is taking to both our customers and us

These are just several of the many questions that are part of the daily job when working in this team.

Being part of this team would involve design and decisionmaking endtoend while collaborating with colleagues from other teams. CAST AI being a technical product it is encouraged not only to go and code something as written in the JIRA ticket but also to come up with new features & potential solutions to the problems thatcustomersare facing.

Here are some of the tools we use daily:

• GoLangis our mainlanguage whilePythonis an accepted alternative for some of the cases
• Kuberneteswhich our product is evolving around
• AWSGCPandAzurecloud providers which are currently supported in our platform
• PostgreSQLandCloud Object Storagefor persistence
• GCP Pub/Subfor messaging
• gRPCfor internal communication
• RESTfor public APIs
• We useGitLab CIwithArgoCDas our GitOps CD engine
• PrometheusGrafanaLokiandTempofor observability.

Requirements:

• You have to be physically in any of the European countries GMT 0 to GMT 3
• Strong software engineering skills
• Strong English skills
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to work independently or with a group
• A yes we can attitude.

Whats in it for you

• Team of highly skilledprofessionals to work with and learn from
• Impact and visibility. Were still a relatively small company every contribution counts
• Flat hierarchy.Getting in touch with the CEO CTO and all the other people from CAST AI team is not only possible but encouraged
• Short feedback loop. We are customeroriented so that we ship our code changes fast in order to get customer feedback right away
• Flexible working location and hours
• Monthly salaryfrom 6000 to 8000(gross) depending on the level of experience
• Skin in the game. Every engineering member gets stock options of the company
• Focus time: minimum overhead of meetings bureaucracy & etc
• 10%selfimprovementtime for personal projects.