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title: 'DevOps Engineer at Pump.co'
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# DevOps Engineer at Pump.co

- **Company:** Pump.co
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $140k–$200k
- **Posted:** 2025-06-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pumpcareers/jobs/4746873008

## Job description

About [Pump.co](http://Pump.co)

Cloud spend is a whopping $500 billion/yr, the biggest growing expense category for any tech company. Tackling these costs requires continuous effort and time from DevOps teams.

Pump is building the fastest way to save ~60% on cloud spend. Our AI-powered platform not only fully automates savings, but we also leverage the power of group buying for even greater discounts. Our mission is to use AI to transform the status quo of cloud cost optimization.

We are backed by Y Combinator, and our founding team consists of seasoned entrepreneurs with prior exits. We have a transparent, collaborative, and fast-paced culture that prioritizes winning with a flat organizational structure.

## About the role

Skills: AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform

You will play a critical role in building our platform, driving the technical direction of our company. This is a hands-on position that will involve working on all parts of our infra, from our environments to the services that run on them, and collaborating with other engineers, designers, and founders. A great opportunity for someone to create a lasting impact not only on the primary product but also on the company's values and vision, given our early stage. We hope Pump will be that career-defining opportunity for all of us!

Responsibilities:

- Take ownership of our AWS infrastructure. Ensure our environments are usable and stable.
- Create tooling to allow our developers to safely and efficiently use our AWS environment to develop applications.
- Collaborate with other engineers and designers to build a user-friendly and intuitive platform that meets our customers' needs.
- Help define and execute the technical roadmap for our platform, balancing technical debt and innovation to ensure we can deliver on our business goals.
- Inventing, extending, and maintaining development processes, tools, and workflows.

Qualifications:

- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience as an infra or devops engineer, with a focus on building scalable and reliable web applications, preferably at a pre-Series B startup. Tech Lead experience is a plus.
- Ability to decompose large problems into concrete deliverables and milestones and then deliver against the committed plan.
- Strong proficiency AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Expertise with SQL and NoSQL databases. We use Postgres and Dynamo!
- Expertise with Docker and container orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes).
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Experience with and enjoys creating prototypes and experimenting quickly.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive healthcare and dental coverage for you
- 401(k) plan
- Generous PTO: 13 accrued days, plus company shutdown December 24—January 1st
- Free lunch & dinner at the office
- Annual company-paid retreats
- Developmental bonuses: support for professional development opportunities tied to cloud and related fields

## Compensation

$140,000—$200,000 USD

## About Pump.co

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pump.co is a financial operations platform that uses AI and group buying to automatically optimize and reduce businesses’ cloud computing costs on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; pre-seed from Y Combinator, seed round led by Focal)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA (also offices in Bengaluru and Delhi NCR, India)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Spandana Nakka (CEO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: FinOps / Cloud Cost Optimization, Fintech, Artificial Intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily startups, mid-market, and enterprises with significant cloud spend (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Stop context-switching across 12 tools during an outage. Your AI SRE already has the full picture.” (from website)

## Products & Services
- **Pump Save**: Automated cloud cost reduction tool. Uses AI and group buying to negotiate discounted AWS/GCP/Azure commitments, rotating short-term commitments across customers. “Autopilot savings plans.” Available at no cost to the customer.
- **Pump View**: Cloud spend visibility and forecasting dashboard. Break down and forecast costs to always know where money is going.
- **Pump Secure**: Cloud security scanning against industry compliance frameworks. Provides step-by-step fixes and 24/7 monitoring.
- **Pump Intelligence (Coming Soon)**: Always-on AI SRE that consolidates incident response, cost optimization, and security insights to stop context-switching during outages.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $25M+ ARR reached in less than two years (as of late 2024); Total funding: $4.5M ($500K pre-seed from Y Combinator, $4M seed led by Focal)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Summer 2022 batch), Focal (lead seed investor), dozens of angel investors
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 250+ customers signed in 6 months, including 50+ YC companies.
  - Headcount grew 95.7% YoY to 66 employees (per LinkedIn).
  - Expanded operations to India in 2024 with a subsidiary; opened offices in Bengaluru and Delhi NCR.
  - Called “Costco of Cloud” by Forbes.
  - Average cloud savings of 60% for users.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Completely free product** – Pump makes money through the spread on group buying, not from customer subscriptions.
- **Group buying model** – Pools customers’ cloud commitments to shorten long-term contracts (3-year commitments shrink to ~1 month) while maximizing discounts.
- **AI automation** – No engineering effort required; the platform automatically finds and applies best pricing as usage spikes, dips, or grows.
- **Multi-cloud support** – Works across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- **Speed of integration** – Sync cloud accounts in under 2 minutes with read-only permissions.

## Strategic Focus
- **International expansion** – Recently launched in India, a high-demand market (second-highest traffic and signups).
- **Product expansion** – Adding incident response capabilities (“Pump Intelligence”) to become a full-stack cloud operations platform.
- **Scaling sales & engineering** – Actively hiring for Account Executives, Solutions Architects, and Backend Engineers in both US and India offices.
- **Maintaining growth trajectory** – Already at $25M+ ARR with a focus on acquiring more mid-market and enterprise customers.

## Why Work Here
- **High-growth environment** – YC-backed startup scaling rapidly from 0 to $25M+ ARR in under 2 years; 95% headcount growth in the last year.
- **In-office culture** – All current roles require working from offices in San Francisco, Bengaluru, or Delhi NCR. (Built In lists “In-Office” and “OnSite Workspace”).
- **Strong engineering culture** – Roles include Backend, Frontend, DevOps, Engineering Manager, and Solutions Architect. Technical team makes up a significant portion of the company.
- **Perks and culture** – Described as “pumped” and “Costco of the cloud”. Founders have multiple exits, and the team includes experienced operators from fintech and SaaS.
- **Global footprint** – Opportunity to work with teams spanning the US, India, Spain, and France.

## Sources
1. [pump.co](https://www.pump.co/) – Official website: product descriptions and value proposition.
2. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/pumpcareers](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pumpcareers) – Current job openings and company overview (ARR, founding team, etc.).
3. [ycombinator.com/companies/pump-co](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pump-co) – Y Combinator company page: founding year, funding, team size, launch posts.
4. [builtin.com/company/pumpco](https://builtin.com/company/pumpco/) – Careers page: office locations, perks, culture, employee count.
5. [linkedin.com/company/pumpcloud/life](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pumpcloud/life) – LinkedIn company page: employee count (66), headcount growth, department breakdown, funding details.

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