Senior Backend / Product Engineer - FinOps & AI Cost Intelligence Platform
Virtasant Inc.9 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend-heavy platform features for a multi-cloud FinOps and AI cost intelligence platform.
- Productionalize AI-enabled capabilities including anomaly detection, recommendations, and agent-based workflows.
- Design and build distributed data pipelines processing cloud billing, usage, and AI telemetry.
- Build reliable systems supporting backfills, late-arriving data, and historical reprocessing.
- Design scalable data models and APIs for customer-facing analytics and AI cost insights.
- Architect asynchronous workflows, event-driven pipelines, and AI agents operating over time.
- Define evaluation criteria, feedback loops, guardrails, rollout strategies, and rollback mechanisms for AI features.
- Collaborate with Product to convert product vision into shipped features and help establish engineering standards.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Deep backend expertise in Python, with Java or C++ as secondary languages.
- Production experience building and operating data-intensive backend systems or pipelines.
- Strong understanding of data modeling, reliability, and data processing.
- Ability to design scalable systems and take them from concept through production.
- Experience using AI-driven development and building AI in real production systems.
- Hands-on experience building on AWS.
- Ability to work with asynchronous workflows, event-driven pipelines, and AI agents.
- Ability to evaluate AI trade-offs involving latency, explainability, data availability, and maintainability.
- Comfort working with product-led direction, ambiguity, high ownership, and rapid iteration.
Benefits
- Fully remote, globally distributed, full-time role.
- High-ownership, high-trust environment with direct access to product leadership.
- Founding-engineer-level autonomy and influence over product direction and commercial outcomes.
- Opportunity to build standalone, licensable AI capabilities using enterprise-scale cost and usage data.
- Exposure to broader cloud optimization and consulting initiatives over time.
About Virtasant Inc.
Virtasant provides cloud and software engineering services to enterprises, focusing on cloud migration and modernization, cost optimization, and AI-enabled transformation. The privately held, fully remote company also develops Helias, a cloud cost optimization platform used to understand, govern, and reduce spend at scale. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, it serves global customers across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.