Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure
About the job
- A B.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong professional experience in systems, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
- Proficiency in Rust and a solid understanding of systems-level programming.
- Experience with transactional and analytical databases, including schema design, performance tuning, migrations, and operational reliability.
- A strong understanding of API design, data flows, and service integrations.
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems or service-oriented architectures.
- Comfort working with infrastructure-as-code and containerized deployments.
- Ability to work autonomously and make high-leverage technical decisions in a fast-moving environment.
- A bias toward automation and building tools that remove friction.
- Design, implement, and maintain core systems and services that support platform reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Build automation and tooling that reduce operational overhead, improve developer workflows, and enforce system-level consistency.
- Develop integrations between internal systems and external platforms such as billing, CRM, authentication, and analytics services.
- Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting across services to ensure strong operational visibility.
- Architect and maintain infrastructure components such as distributed services, data pipelines, and deployment automation.
- Contribute to security-focused systems work, including permissions controls, access flows, and auditability.
- Troubleshoot issues across backend, infrastructure, and occasionally frontend layers, taking ownership from diagnosis through resolution.
- Work in frontend code as needed to complete system-level changes or fix issues affecting broader system reliability.
- Experience with frontend development using JavaScript or React for occasional user-interface fixes.
- Background with billing systems such as Stripe or CRM platforms.
- Experience building internal tooling, permissions systems, or developer productivity infrastructure.
- Familiarity with CAD-adjacent workflows or domain-specific data pipelines.
About the company
KittyCAD.io provides infrastructure for hardware design, offering a GPU-powered engine with remote streaming and an Open API to support both pre-built tools and client-developed applications. Its Modeling AppPublic Alpha combines point-and-click CAD with code editing, and its Text-to-CAD interface helps automate workflows. The product suite accelerates design processes through machine learning and autoscaling infrastructure, while reducing hardware requirements and costs. KittyCAD.io differentiates itself with a GPU-accelerated, streaming-enabled platform that works across devices and operating systems, and by offering customizable tooling via an Open API, allowing hobbyists, startups, and enterprises to build, deploy, and scale hardware design tools more efficiently. The company’s goal is to save engineering time and resources, enable flexible tool development, and lower the barriers to hardware design by providing scalable, automated infrastructure.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$5M
Headquarters
Inglewood, California
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Zoo reported 300,000 early users and over one million unique Text-to-CAD designs by January 2026.
- Zoo launched Zookeeper on February 5, 2026, adding a differentiated conversational CAD agent.
- Zoo Design Studio pricing starts free, then $99 monthly, lowering trial friction for teams.
What critics are saying
- Autodesk and Onshape already dominate collaborative CAD; Zoo must displace entrenched workflows quickly.
- Zoo raised only about $35.5 million; scaling compute-heavy CAD could outspend revenue.
- If Text-to-CAD disappoints, Zoo becomes a niche plugin, not essential design infrastructure.
What makes Zoo unique
- Zoo built a GPU-native geometry engine; Zookeeper edits CAD conversationally, not just visually.
- Zoo Design Studio unifies point-and-click, code, and text-to-CAD in one workspace.
- Zoo supports Mac, Windows, and Linux, broadening adoption beyond proprietary CAD stacks.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Hybrid Work Options
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Remote Work Options
- Stock Options
- Competitive Equity
- Wellness Program