Senior Software Engineer | Kimchi (Agent Platform Team)

📋 Job Overview

CAST AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Kimchi platform team. Kimchi is the AI platform inside CAST AI, helping companies run LLMs on their own Kubernetes clusters and providing managed capabilities.

🏢 About CAST AI

CAST AI is an AI platform that started by helping companies run LLMs on their own Kubernetes clusters and now provides managed variants of those same capabilities.

🎯 The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on different key features of our product. All of these are high-agency roles across multiple parts of the tech stack that minimize process friction that would otherwise prevent you from shipping.

In every team you will own features end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, production rollout. Most projects ship in 1-4 weeks. You'll work directly with product and other engineering teams on problems that don't have textbook solutions.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed systems that run agent fleets at scale across cloud and self-hosted environments, with security at its core
• Make every agent action observable, auditable, and governable
• Develop a remote-first experience of working with agents

📌 Required Qualifications

• Production experience with Go or Typescript is strongly preferred; candidates without either should demonstrate strong systems programming skills in a comparable language.
• Strong debugging, optimization, and performance-tuning skills – including query profiling, index design, and database performance tuning beyond ORM usage.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and Kubernetes is a strong plus
• Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), CI/CD and DevOps practices experience.
• Startup mindset: adaptable, proactive, and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Strong English skills, both verbal and written.
• You've personally driven a complex project end-to-end.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience in virtualization, networking, security, and Kubernetes internals is a strong plus

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive salary (€6,500 - €9,000 gross, depending on the level of experience).
• Enjoy a flexible, remote-first global environment.
• Collaborate with a global team of cloud experts and innovators, passionate about pushing the boundaries of Kubernetes technology
• Equity options.
• Get quick feedback with a fast-paced workflow. Most feature projects are completed in 1 to 4 weeks.
• Spend 10% of your work time on personal projects or self-improvement.
• Learning budget for professional and personal development - including access to international conferences and courses that elevate your skills.
• Annual hackathon to spark new ideas and strengthen team bonds.
• Team-building budget and company events to connect with your colleagues.
• Equipment budget to ensure you have everything you need.
• Extra days off to help maintain a healthy work-life balance.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Cast AI does not provide any form of visa sponsorship/work permit.