JumpCloud

Staff Engineer, Cloud Platform - India

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6 days ago
Remote, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction for platform observability, including metrics, logs, traces, events, instrumentation, SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and observability cost management.
  • Own FinOps capabilities including cost allocation, showback, savings initiatives, commitment planning, unit economics, forecasting, and cloud cost guardrails.
  • Own incident management processes, lead major incidents, run root-cause analyses, and improve MTTD, MTTR, repeat incidents, and on-call load.
  • Build AI agents, self-healing automation, and guarded remediation workflows for incident detection and response.
  • Own business continuity and disaster recovery strategy, including RTO/RPO targets, replication, backups, failover, failback, recovery environments, and DR drills.
  • Write production-quality Go or Python for tooling, exporters, data pipelines, and automation.
  • Partner with customer support and product engineering teams to improve monitoring, reliability, recoverability, and customer impact.
  • Write design documents, review architecture, mentor engineers, and drive cross-team reliability and cost-aware improvements.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years in platform, SRE, or infrastructure roles operating 24/7 SaaS systems at scale.
  • Deep experience designing and operating observability systems with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry, including instrumentation, SLOs, and trusted alerting.
  • A measurable FinOps track record and experience with AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, Kubecost, or similar tools and commitment planning.
  • Strong production coding skills in Go or Python for tooling and automation.
  • Hands-on production experience with AWS, GCP, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience owning on-call and incident processes, leading major incidents, and running RCAs that produce lasting fixes.
  • Experience building incident-response or remediation automation and hands-on experience with AI agents or LLM-based tools for root-cause analysis or auto-remediation.
  • Experience designing and testing disaster recovery for production SaaS systems, including RTO/RPO targets, DR sites, replication, and failover drills.
  • Software engineering experience and close collaboration with customer support teams to resolve issues and reduce customer impact.
  • Staff-level influence across multiple teams without direct authority, plus clear communication with engineering, finance, and leadership.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • FinOps Certified Practitioner or hands-on FinOps Framework experience is preferred.
  • Preferred experience includes CloudHealth, Vantage, Cloudability, AWS Compute Optimizer, cost and usage data pipelines, in-house observability at scale, eBPF monitoring, continuous profiling, real user monitoring, vendor contract management, open-source contributions, writing, or conference talks.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work arrangement within India.
  • Participation in assigned on-call shifts is required.
  • English is the primary language for internal business, interviews, and screening.
  • Equal opportunity employer with a collaborative, supportive, and growth-oriented work environment.

Tech Stack

AWSDatadogGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraform

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
JumpCloud

About JumpCloud

501-1,000 employees

JumpCloud builds a unified open directory and IT management platform for organizations to manage user identities, devices, and access across Windows, macOS, Linux, and cloud resources. Its SaaS suite covers single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, Cloud RADIUS, LDAP/Active Directory integration, and server/device management for IT teams. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, the privately held company serves customers worldwide.

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