Senior Software Engineer - Tooling Team

About Us

Cast AI is the leading Application Performance Automation (APA) platform, enabling customers to cut cloud costs, improve performance, and boost productivity – automatically.

Built originally for Kubernetes, Cast AI goes beyond cost and observability by delivering real-time, autonomous optimization across any cloud environment. The platform continuously analyzes workloads, rightsizes resources, and rebalances clusters without manual intervention, ensuring applications run faster, more reliably, and more efficiently.

Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Cast AI has employees in more than 32 countries worldwide and supports some of the world’s most innovative teams running their applications on all major cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Over 2,100 companies already rely on Cast - from BMW and Akamai to Hugging Face and NielsenIQ.

What’s next? Backed by our $108M Series C, we’re doubling down on making APA the new standard for DevOps and MLOps, and everything in between.

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.

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