About the Role
Our Platform Infrastructure team is the backbone of everything we do at Attentive, providing a resilient and cost-effective platform that seamlessly handles billions of events from over 100 million customers daily. We own everything from compute, persistence, and networking to observability and deployments. Joining our team offers a high-growth career opportunity to collaborate with some of the world’s most talented engineers in a high-performance, high-impact culture.
As a Staff Engineer in Cloud Optimization, you will have the opportunity to work across all of the engineering teams at Attentive, focusing on implementing and driving cost optimizations across our Software Stack. You will collaborate and work with engineers, product managers and our finance team. Your work will drive millions of cost savings, provide enhanced visibility and improve our cost model.
What You’ll Accomplish
- Spearhead FinOps initiatives to increase cost transparency and optimize resource utilization across teams
- Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers on cost-optimization best practices
- Collaborate with teams across the organization to implement cost-saving measures
- Analyze, troubleshoot, coordinate, and resolve complex infrastructure issues
- Proactively lead infrastructure initiatives that have a company-wide impact
- Partner with engineering teams to influence cost-effective architectural and design choices
- Develop automation workflows to enhance team productivity and efficiency
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging innovative thinking and challenging established norms
Your Expertise
- 2+ years of experience in FinOps or cloud cost management
- 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure management, development or related roles
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities
- You have development experience working with data warehouse tools like Snowflake, Clickhouse, Trino, etc
- You’ve experience with open source data storage formats such as Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Arrow, or Hudi
- You are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data replication techniques, such as CDC.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment
- Proven experience as a Software Engineer with a focus on high throughput scalable systems.
- In-depth knowledge of high throughput processing technologies such as Spark, Flink, and/or Kafka.
- Proficiency in Java and strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and optimization.
What We Use
- Our backend is Java / Kotlin / Spring Boot microservices, built with Gradle, coupled with things like DynamoDB, Aurora, AirFlow, Postgres, and Redis, hosted via AWS
- Our infrastructure runs primarily in Kubernetes hosted in AWS’s EKS, using tooling like Istio, Datadog, Terraform, CloudFlare, and Helm
- Our frontend is built with React and TypeScript, and uses best practices like GraphQL, Storybook, Radix UI, Vite, esbuild, and Playwright
- Our automation is driven by custom and open source machine learning models, industry-leading LLMs, lots of data and tech like Python, Metaflow, HuggingFace, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Pandas
You'll get competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.
For US based applicants:
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $180,000 - $240,000 annually + equity + benefits
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 2+ years of experience in FinOps or cloud cost management
- 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure management, development or related roles
- Proficiency in AWS, Datadog, Kubernetes, Terraform, Java
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities
Attentive Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Attentive and has not been reviewed or approved by Attentive.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, plus a fully covered One Medical membership and mental health resources. Employer-paid options and added wellness stipends indicate strong support for physical and mental wellbeing.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants are described as significant and a meaningful component of total compensation. Market-value cash pay paired with stock helps position overall packages as competitive.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave, fertility and family-forming benefits, and supports such as Milk Stork and travel reimbursement for necessary medical care are offered. These provisions signal robust support for families across different needs.
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What We Do
Attentive® is the AI marketing platform for leading brands, designed to optimize message performance through 1:1 SMS and email interactions. Infusing intelligence at every stage of the consumer’s purchasing journey, Attentive empowers businesses to achieve hyper-personalized communication with their customers on a large scale. Leveraging AI-powered tools, a mobile-first approach, two-way conversations, and enterprise-grade technology, Attentive drives billions in online revenue for brands around the globe. Trusted by over 8,000 leading brands such as CB2, Urban Outfitters, GUESS, Dickey’s Barbeque Pit, and Wyndham Resort, Attentive is the go-to solution for delivering powerful commerce experiences for consumers with the brands they love. To learn more about Attentive or to request a demo, visit www.attentive.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), or Instagram.
Why Work With Us
At Attentive, you'll connect with inspiring, high-caliber people, and be encouraged to take risks, get creative, and think bigger. We're solving big problems for our customers, through our innovative AI solutions, giving employees the opportunity to thrive along the journey. The sky's the limit when it comes to what's possible.
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