Cast AI · 1 month ago
Senior Software Engineer
Cast AI is the leading Application Performance Automation platform, enabling customers to cut cloud costs and improve performance. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work on key features of the product, focusing on areas such as reporting, pricing, autoscaling, and workload optimization.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCloud InfrastructureCloud ManagementCloud SecurityDeveloper PlatformDeveloper ToolsDevOpsSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Work on different key features of our product
Builds a scalable reporting system that ingests millions of rows per second into our time-series databases, providing insights into cost savings, workload efficiencies, and Cast AI automation impact
Drives the synchronization of public and customer cloud resources, availability, and dynamic pricing across all major cloud providers
Empowers autoscaling by leveraging discounts, commitments, and cross-cluster tracking to maximize savings
Provides a reliable source of truth for node pricing, resources, components, discounts, and commitments
Automates Kubernetes node autoscaling to optimize clusters, balance workloads, remove underutilized nodes, and dynamically allocate capacity in real-time, thereby reducing cluster costs by half
Automates workload resource management by dynamically adjusting resource allocations, helping developers significantly reduce costs and improve application reliability
Helps customers deploying and managing LLMs in their Kubernetes cluster and optimizes their workloads by providing cost visibility and intelligent routing for LLM requests to the most cost-effective compute resources
Builds a Kubernetes Security product that helps our customers secure their clusters, surfacing threats with the biggest potential security impact by ingesting millions of data points from vulnerability advisories, image scans and configurations from customer’s environments, application behavior at runtime, etc
Builds and maintains essential services - such as authorization, notifications, audit logs, and feature flags - that enable customers to securely and effectively use the Cast AI platform after purchase
Qualification
Required
Strong software engineering skills with experience in distributed systems and backend development (ideally GoLang, but not a hard requirement as long as you're willing to transition to it)
Strong debugging, optimization, and performance-tuning skills
Deep understanding of cloud platforms: hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and tools such as Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration
CI/CD and DevOps practices experience
Strong English skills, both verbal and written
Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team
Startup mindset: adaptable, proactive, and comfortable with ambiguity
A proactive, problem-solving mindset with a 'yes we can' attitude
Benefits
Equity options.
Private health insurance.
Spend 10% of your work time on personal projects or self-improvement.
Learning budget for professional and personal development - including access to international conferences and courses that elevate your skills.
Annual hackathon to spark new ideas and strengthen team bonds.
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.
Company
Cast AI
CAST AI is the leading Kubernetes automation platform that cuts AWS, Azure, and GCP customers’ cloud costs by over 50%
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$181MKey Investors
CreandumCota Capital
2025-04-30Series C· $108M
2023-11-07Series B· $35M
2023-03-01Series B· $20M
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