Senior Software Engineer (L5) - MCE

## Responsibilities - Own the end-to-end design and delivery of high-impact engineering projects. - Act as a primary owner of key system components, handling technical ambiguity, collaborating with stakeholders, and delivering robust, scalable solutions. - Lead projects from concept to deployment, designing and building scalable systems that handle high-volume data streams to provide accurate cost attribution and resource management. - Identify and eliminate inefficiencies in cloud architecture, engineering solutions that mitigate resource waste, improve attribution accuracy, and raise the efficiency of underlying cloud and data infrastructure. - Act as the technical expert for your service area, taking ownership of the full lifecycle of your services, ensuring high code quality, effective monitoring, and low operational overhead. - Work effectively with product and infrastructure teams to turn business needs into technical specifications, developing tooling that simplifies the complex world of cloud economics for other engineers and budget owners. - Uplevel the team by contributing to code reviews, sharing engineering best practices, and mentoring junior engineers, driving a shift-left culture by integrating efficiency checks directly into the developer workflow. - Build automation and AI/agentic tooling that detects waste, attributes cost, and remediates issues with minimal human intervention, turning repetitive cost operations into self-running systems. ## Requirements - 6+ years of experience, including producing high-quality production code and detailed technical design documents for distributed systems. - Proven ability to break down complex, multi-month projects into actionable milestones and tasks. - Solid grasp of industry best practices for distributed systems (monitoring, documentation, testing, and "fit and finish"). - Experience in optimizing cloud resource utilization or developing large-scale distributed tools. - Ability to make well-reasoned trade-offs between system performance, development velocity, and technical debt. ## Nice to Have - N/A ## Benefits - Work with one of the world's leading data and AI infrastructure platforms. - Impact infrastructure margins by building the next generation of cost attribution, automated resource management, and efficiency tooling. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex technical challenges. - Contribute to a culture of innovation and excellence in engineering practices. - Mentor junior engineers and drive best practices across the team.