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Staff Engineer, Cloud Platform - India

JumpCloud
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · India
Experience
Lead / principal · 10+ years

Job description

Staff Engineer in JumpCloud's Cloud Platform organization focused on observability and FinOps, setting technical direction for observability, incident management, disaster recovery, and cloud cost across AWS and GCP. A hands-on staff role building tooling and AI-driven automation while working with engineering, support, finance, and leadership.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
Remote · India
Languages
English – fluent

What you'll do

  • Set the technical direction for observability across JumpCloud's cloud platform: metrics, logs, traces, and events, on AWS and GCP
  • Build and run the observability stack (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), including standard instrumentation libraries and collectors that teams adopt by default
  • Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets with service owners, and build the dashboards and burn-rate alerts that hold us to a 99.99% SLA
  • Cut alert noise; make sure every page is actionable, routed to the right owner, and backed by a runbook
  • Shorten detection and recovery times (MTTD and MTTR) by improving tracing, correlation, and incident tooling
  • Manage observability cost itself: cardinality, log volume, sampling, and retention
  • Own cloud cost visibility: tagging standards, cost allocation by team and service, and showback reports
  • Find and deliver savings through right-sizing, autoscaling, spot capacity, storage tiering, idle-resource cleanup, and data-transfer reduction
  • Shape commitment strategy (Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, committed-use discounts) with finance, based on real usage data
  • Build automation and guardrails, such as budget alerts, anomaly detection, and policy-as-code checks
  • Define unit economics, like cost per customer or per device, and make cost a normal input to design reviews
  • Partner with finance on forecasting and budgeting, and explain cloud spend clearly to leadership
  • Own the incident management process end to end: severity levels, on-call rotations, escalation paths, communication, and the tooling behind them
  • Lead major incidents as incident commander or senior escalation point, and keep customers and leadership informed
  • Run root cause analysis (RCA) for significant incidents, and drive the follow-up actions to completion
  • Build AI agents that correlate alerts, logs, traces, and recent changes to find the likely root cause automatically
  • Build self-healing automation and AI agents that detect and fix known issues before they escalate or reach customers, with safe guardrails and human approval where it matters
  • Measure and improve incident health over time: MTTD, MTTR, repeat incidents, and on-call load
  • Own JumpCloud's business continuity (BCP) and disaster recovery (DR) strategy for the cloud platform
  • Define RTO and RPO targets with product and leadership, and design the architecture to meet them
  • Design and build the DR site and recovery environment across AWS and GCP, including data replication, backups, failover, and failback
  • Plan and run regular DR tests and failover drills, document the results, and close the gaps they reveal
  • Keep DR runbooks, recovery automation, and BCP plans current, and support audit and customer requests for evidence
  • Write production-quality Go or Python for tooling, exporters, data pipelines, and automation
  • Work closely with customer support teams: turn support tickets and escalations into monitoring, alerts, and fixes

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 4 years in platform, SRE, or infrastructure roles running 24/7 SaaS systems at scale
  • Observability depth: designed and run observability at scale with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry; know how to instrument services, set meaningful SLOs, and build alerts people trust
  • FinOps track record: cut cloud spend in a measurable way, comfortable with AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, Kubecost, or similar tools, and with commitment planning
  • Strong coding skills: built production tooling and automation in Go or Python, not just dashboards and scripts
  • AWS, GCP, and Terraform: strong hands-on production experience with both AWS and GCP, and with Terraform for infrastructure as code; production Kubernetes experience is expected
  • Incident management: owned on-call and incident processes, led major incidents, and run RCAs that led to lasting fixes
  • AI and automation: built automation for incident response or remediation, and hands-on experience building AI agents or LLM-based tools for root cause analysis or auto-remediation
  • BCP and DR: designed and tested disaster recovery for production SaaS systems, including RTO and RPO targets, DR sites, replication, and failover drills
  • Engineering and customer focus: software engineering background and worked closely with customer support teams to resolve issues and reduce customer impact
  • Staff-level influence: driven change across multiple teams without direct authority, and can get engineers to care about both reliability and cost
  • Clear communication with engineers, finance, and leadership; can turn usage and cost data into a simple story and a clear decision
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • A strong team player who lives our core values: building connections, thinking big, and getting 1% better every day

Nice to have

  • FinOps Certified Practitioner, or hands-on experience applying the FinOps Framework
  • Experience with cost tools such as CloudHealth, Vantage, Cloudability, or AWS Compute Optimizer
  • Experience building cost and usage data pipelines (AWS CUR, BigQuery billing export, Athena) and reporting on top of them
  • Experience running observability in-house at scale (Prometheus/Thanos/Mimir, Loki, Tempo) and weighing that against SaaS vendors
  • Experience with eBPF-based monitoring, continuous profiling, or real user monitoring
  • Experience negotiating or managing vendor contracts for observability or cloud spend
  • Open-source contributions, published writing, or conference talks on observability or FinOps

Your team

Cloud Platform organization

Focus on observability and FinOps

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About JumpCloud

Intelligent, Secure IT.

JumpCloud is the AI-powered unified IT management platform designed to secure the modern workforce. By consolidating identity, device, and access management, JumpCloud provides intelligent, secure IT that scales from human users to autonomous AI agents.

Mission

To help organizations around the globe eliminate complexity and turn AI risk into an optimized advantage, ensuring the right people and agents have secure access to the right resources at all times.

Key facts

  • IT management platform / SaaS
  • Remote First company
  • Teams in 15+ countries around the world
  • Conducts internal business in English
  • Engineers participate in on-call shifts

What they value

  • Build Connections
  • Get 1% better every day