Software Engineer

Summary

Join Zencore, a fast-growing company founded by former Google Cloud leaders, seeking experienced Google Cloud professionals for a short-term contract. As a Cloud Engineer, you will work with innovative companies, acting as a trusted advisor guiding their cloud transformation. You will develop technical designs, project plans, and lead implementation teams, utilizing technologies like Kubernetes, AI, and LLMs. The role requires strong problem-solving skills and experience with various cloud technologies and tools. While a full-time transition isn't expected, Zencore offers competitive compensation and benefits and a fully remote work environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working in a Software Engineering capacity
• Excellent knowledge and experience with Python, and preferably additional languages such as Go
• Strong critical thinking skills, and a bias towards problem solving
• Familiarity with implementing microservice architectures
• Fundamental skills with Kubernetes. You should be familiar with packaging and deploying your applications to k8s
• Experience deploying production workloads on the public cloud - either GCP or AWS
• Experience using CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, etc
• Able to work with new tools and technologies where you may not have prior experience
• Comfortable with being on video in meetings internally and with clients
• Strong English communications skills

Responsibilities

• Working with our clients to understand their requirements and technical challenges. Using this input you will develop a technical design for a solution and communicate the value of your solution to the client team
• You will work to develop delivery estimates and an estimated project plan
• You will act as the lead technical member of the implementation project team. You are responsible for making the key technical and keeping delivery on track. You should be able to unblock when things are stuck
• Utilize a broad range of technologies such as Kubernetes, AI, and Large Language Models (LLMs), to develop scalable and efficient cloud applications
• Stay abreast of industry trends and new technologies to drive continuous improvement in cloud solutions and practices
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end cloud solutions, from conceptualization to deployment and maintenance
• Engage in problem-solving and troubleshooting to address complex technical challenges in a cloud environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building applications that work with data, databases, and other parts of the data ecosystem is preferred
• Familiarity with Generative AI workflows, frameworks like Langchain, and experience with Streamlit are all highly desirable, but at a minimum you should have a willingness to learn

Benefits

We are a fully remote company and offer competitive compensation and benefits