# Staff / Principal Software 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
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $220K to $290K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-19
- Apply by: 2026-12-03
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/CloudZero/9d3d8290-dc14-46f1-a322-6d6ca2dd2f9c?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cloudzero-staff-principal-software-engineer/

## About the role

CloudZero is hiring Staff and Principal Software Engineers across our engineering organization. We're not filling a single seat. We're building a bench of senior technical talent across every team that makes CloudZero run. If you're the kind of engineer who wants to work on hard problems at real scale, own architecture decisions that matter, and see your work land directly in the hands of customers and operators, there's a place for you here. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Significant experience building and operating production backend systems at scale
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or another backend language, comfort reading and reasoning about systems in languages you didn't write
- Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), distributed systems, and the tradeoffs that come with scale
- Experience with data pipelines, ETL frameworks, or stream processing in production environments
- Strong SQL and hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or similar)
- You use AI tools in your own data platform work. You can describe your own workflow and the failure modes you've worked around. Strategy-deck AI doesn't qualify, we want hands-on

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cloudzero-staff-principal-software-engineer/