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What they do

CloudZero calls itself the AI ROI company. ROI is return on investment. Its software links each AI and cloud dollar to the outcome it produced, so finance, engineering, and IT work from the same numbers. It processes 14 trillion billing events a year. Customers include Coinbase, Duolingo, DoorDash, and Shutterstock. Venture capital firms backed it with more than $119 million.

What they value

• Delight the customer: make customers' lives easier than they expect.
• Commit, then iterate: perfection comes from a process.
• Less is more: do not put in more just because you can.
• Nothing is sacred: change anything that can be done better.
• Own the outcome: ownership is a decision, not a title.
• We, not I: share early, push back hard, and win as a team.

Where they hire

All 14 open roles are in Boston, the head office, or San Francisco. Most are hybrid. The sales development role asks for three to four days a week on site near Boston, and the executive assistant role for three. One sales role in San Francisco is remote. No posting mentions visa sponsorship.

Teams and roles

The board lists 14 postings. One is a talent community for people who want to hear about future roles.

• Engineering, 3 postings: staff and principal software engineers, a senior platform engineer, and a technical support engineer.
• Marketing, 4 postings: a sales development representative, a director of brand and communications, and senior content and product marketing managers.
• Product, 2 postings: product managers for agentic systems and AI work. An agentic system uses AI agents, programs that act on their own.
• Other roles: an enterprise account executive and a director of AI ROI advisory services. There is also an executive assistant to the CEO, and a senior AI enablement engineer in the office of the CTO.

Staff and principal engineers can join the agent platform, billing ingest, platform services, integrations, or cost optimization teams. The agent platform team builds an agent that measures what coding agents and AI workloads cost. Twelve postings give a pay range in US dollars, and all twelve offer equity.

What they look for

Nine of the 14 postings ask for hands-on use of AI tools such as Claude or coding agents. The software engineer role wants backend systems at scale, Python, AWS, data pipelines, SQL, and cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake. The platform role wants Kubernetes, Terraform, and automation in Python, Go, or Node.

The account executive role wants three or more years of SaaS closing and sales methods such as MEDDPICC. The advisory role asks for seven or more years at a top strategy firm. Marketing roles ask for five to more than ten years of B2B (business-to-business) experience. Two want work with finance and technical buyers.