Software Engineer (Insights)

About the Role: CloudZero is the leading cloud cost intelligence platform, helping engineering teams understand and optimize their cloud spend. We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Insights team—responsible for surfacing cost-saving opportunities, identifying spend anomalies, and delivering meaningful analytics to customers building in the cloud.

If you’re passionate about solving complex data problems, building user-focused backend systems, and making a measurable impact at scale, this role is for you.

Ready to help engineers save money and build smarter in the cloud?

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable APIs, services, and backend systems.

• Write clean, maintainable Python code that’s easy to extend and iterate on.

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to build features that solve real customer problems.

• Contribute to improving our engineering systems and workflows to support fast iteration and team ownership.

• Scale our platform to support larger datasets and growing enterprise customers.

Our Tech Stack

We leverage modern serverless technologies to power a real-time, event-driven architecture:

• AWS Lambda, Step Functions, S3, EventBridge.

• Snowflake for large-scale data processing.

• Python as our primary backend language.

• Kanban workflow and small, cross-functional teams.

You May Be a Great Fit If You

• 3+ years in software development, preferably SaaS.

• Have experience building and maintaining APIs and backend systems in cloud environments (AWS preferred).

• Enjoy working with large datasets and solving data-centric engineering challenges.

• Are fluent in Python and take pride in writing high-quality, scalable software.

• Understand and apply system design principles pragmatically.

• Value cross-functional collaboration and turning feedback into well-crafted solutions.

• Are open to a hybrid schedule and able to work from our Boston Collaboration Center once per week.

Please note: CloudZero is unable to sponsor employment visas or provide immigration-related support now or in the future. All candidates must have current, unrestricted authorization to work in the United States permanently.