# Senior IT & AI Systems Engineer at CloudZero

- Company: CloudZero
- What the company does: CloudZero offers a cloud cost intelligence platform that enables organizations to analyze and manage their cloud expenditures. Backed by Underscore VC.
- Company website: https://cloudzero.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Boston, MA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $145K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/CloudZero/e5a67d97-cbbd-4409-b64d-af998ad65a4c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cloudzero-senior-it-and-ai-systems-engineer/

## About the role

CloudZero is making a foundational hire in the Office of the CTO: the person who builds the data and AI platform the rest of the company operates on.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years at the intersection of data engineering and infrastructure. You've built pipelines and the platforms they run on, and been on call for both
- Working Snowflake experience, or a comparable warehouse you've built pipelines into and governed. Familiarity with its RBAC, policy, and cost model, or a clear track record of picking that up on a new platform
- Comfortable with orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or equivalent) and opinions about idempotency, backfills, and late-arriving data. Transformation tooling like dbt is a plus, not a prerequisite
- Strong software engineering fundamentals. Python required, SQL assumed, Go or Bash a plus. IaC at scale (Pulumi, CDK, CloudFormation) where you set the standard rather than follow it
- Hands-on production AI and LLM experience with agents, RAG, tool-calling, and MCP or equivalent, plus a point of view on agent identity, tool governance, and what breaks once it's live
- Deep AWS (Bedrock, IAM, EventBridge, Lambda) with working knowledge of GCP and Azure. Strong API instincts: you've stitched SaaS systems together with REST, webhooks, and event hooks, and know where those integrations rot

Tags: Office of CTO