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Our customer base is expanding, the data challenges we're solving are getting more complex, and the platform is scaling to match. As we look to the next evolution of CloudZero's infrastructure, we're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who can help shape what comes next.\nYou'll own our core messaging and container orchestration platforms, bringing deep technical expertise to decisions that will shape how we build, scale, and operate our infrastructure. You'll have the autonomy to identify opportunities, determine the right solutions, and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and developer experience. Rather than simply maintaining what exists today, you'll help define the foundations our engineering organization will rely on as we continue to grow.\nIn this role, you'll lead the operations, scaling, and tuning of our Kafka clusters and Kubernetes environments. Because we leverage Amazon EKS, you won't be bogged down with from-scratch control plane management. 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Strong experience with any Kubernetes environment is great, whether that's EKS, GKE, AKS, or self-hosted\n\nFamiliarity with core cloud infrastructure concepts (compute, networking, IAM). While we operate on AWS, strong experience with any major cloud provider (GCP, Azure, etc.) is perfectly fine\n\nSolid experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar Infrastructure as Code tools to manage infrastructure predictably\n\nAbility to write automation and tooling in Python, Go, or Node, and Bash\n\nSome experience designing and operating GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions or something similar\n\nNice to Have\nExperience with Kafka ecosystem tools (Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, ksqlDB)\n\nExperience writing custom GitHub Actions or composite actions\n\nExperience running stateful workloads and data infrastructure on Kubernetes\n\nPassion for Developer Experience (DevEx) and optimizing CI/CD workflows to improve engineering velocity\n\nAbout CloudZero\nCloudZero is the AI ROI Company. We built the financial control plane for AI: the system finance, IT, and engineering use to connect every AI dollar to the outcome it produced. Across every provider. 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