Job Description
Want to get to the next step in your international career?
We can support you!
Ubiminds is a GPTW-certified, people-first company that partners with American software product companies to scale their development footprint. Ubi custom-curates Brazilian top 5% talent for their LATAM strategy, offering a unique combo of staff augmentation and employer-of-record services.
One of our clients is a SaaS platform at the intersection of next-generation cloud cost management and FinOps.
The company ingests billing and usage data from all cloud, SaaS, and PaaS providers, organizes it in real-time according to the customers’ business structures, lets customers view it at any level of time or resource granularity, and ultimately empowers them to make more informed business decisions.
Apply now! This is a unique opportunity for you to not only accelerate your international career but also work in a groundbreaking company.
Challenge
As a Sr. Backend Engineer you will build out an exciting new piece of platform technology. This project will help customers connect their Kubernetes metrics natively from their observability platform of choice. You’ll help us build out a framework to pull in metrics from the customer’s observability vendor to allow them to get deep insight into what is driving their Kubernetes cluster spending.
What you'll do
- Be responsible for building out a backend that can query leading observability solutions (New Relic, Datadog, and more.)
- Create a data pipeline to transform that data into CloudZero's proprietary internal data layout.
- Prototype quickly to test out various technical approaches to these problems.
- Work closely with our Product Management team to understand what outcomes this feature should drive.
- Bring other engineers on board to the project as technical approaches show merit.
In order to succeed in this position, you will need:
Mandatory skills
- Advanced/fluent English skills – Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- At least 2 years of experience with Python
- At least 8 years of experience building backend systems for a B2B SaaS company.
- Experience and proficiency building on AWS, preferably with good experience with AWS Lambda
- Experience programmatically retrieving data from top observability solutions in the market (Datadog or New Relic preferred)
- Proficiency with Kubernetes constructs
- International travel may be required up to 10% of the time, depending on business needs.
- It must be okay with some overlap with the US East Coast time zone.
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS, and one Certification
- Experience with APIs.
Perks and Benefits
As a Senior Backend Engineer at @Ubiminds, you:
• Are placed in a product-based company, with the same treatment as their full-time employees.
• Have our full back-office support, from career guidance to HR and concierge services.
• Enjoy our remote-first policy – we are a distributed team, after all.
• Get your own MacBook (none of that "bring your own device" stuff here).
• Have access to growth opportunities with other amazing technology professionals, through tech talks, chapter meetings, and even remote happy hours for tons of fun!
• Improve your English through free lessons with a native English speaker - get to the next level on your communication skills!
• Candidate Referral bonus (promote Ubi to your tech friends, and get paid for it!)
• Miss working in the office? Our cool Florianópolis headquarters is available, whenever you want, with weekly quick massages & tasty snacks, soft drinks, and games
How our process works
• An initial general quick chat with a Tech Recruiter
• Interview with Tech Recruiter (specific chat about the job opening)
• Client process (this may vary)
• Offer