How do you hire an AI developer through Clouditive?

Tell us the role, the seniority and the hours a week. We confirm availability on the first call and present candidates within 1 week. You interview the engineer who will do the work, and that engineer is the one who joins. Then you pay per hour worked at the published band, with a 6-month minimum, and the engineer works in your tools and your process.

The people

Who will do the work?

Mat Caniglia leads every project end to end. The engineers are in LATAM and share your working day.

1 weekWe present candidates within 1 week, and you interview the engineer who will do the work.

Three checks before you meet an engineer

  1. Technical interview

    A technical interview built around a real exercise.

  2. English interview

    Checks that the engineer can work with you in English.

  3. Mat interviews

    Mat Caniglia interviews every engineer himself before we present them to you.

Engineers from our published cases

Roles, stacks and languages of the engineers who worked on the cases on this site. We publish no names or photos.

Hire a DevOps, SRE or platform engineer

Investment analytics / Fintech

Status: Production platform, work ongoing

  1. dev
  2. 1-hour soak
  3. gates
  4. production
  • ~3xmore production releases per week
  • 23% → 4%production release failures
  • 0 → 275production alerting rules
  • 72 srollback, rehearsed in dev

Drawn from the case. The product is a client system and is not shown.

Read the case

A DevOps, SRE or platform engineer from Clouditive works inside your team and your own accounts, in your business hours. A Senior is USD 45–⁠50 an hour, Lead or Architect 55–⁠60 and Mid 35–⁠40, billed per hour worked with a 6-month minimum.

We don't run 24x7 on-call. We leave the alerts and runbooks so your own on-call can resolve incidents.

  • Build and run release pipelines: automatic deploys to dev, a soak period, verification gates, and rollback by re-promotion.
  • Put your infrastructure in code with Terraform or OpenTofu, with a brake on any change that would destroy something.
  • Wire metrics, logs and traces, define SLOs, and prove the alerts fire before anyone relies on them.
  • Build the internal developer platform: a service catalog, deploy status and promotion from the portal.
  • Audit cloud cost and right-size from historical maximums.

What an engineer costs

Same rates as staff augmentation. There is no fixed package for this service.

  • You interviewYou meet the engineer who will do the work.
  • 6-month minimumBilled per hour worked.
  • Free replacementIf they leave or don't fit, we replace them and cover the handover at no cost.
See how staff augmentation works
  • Lead / ArchitectUSD55–⁠60per hour
  • SeniorUSD45–⁠50per hour
  • MidUSD35–⁠40per hour
  • JuniorUSD30per hour

USD per hour, drawn to one scale

Frequently asked questions

How fast can I hire an AI developer?

We reply to your request within 1 business day and present candidates within 1 week. You interview them before anyone starts.

Will the engineer I interview be the one who works?

Yes. You interview the engineer who will do the work, and that engineer joins your team.

Is a hired engineer my employee?

No. They are dedicated, full-time contractor engineers under contract with DX Clouditive LLC, with an IP assignment and an NDA.

Which roles can I hire?

AI engineers, software engineers as forward deployed engineers, and platform, DevOps, SRE and QA engineers. For any other role, we say on the first call whether we can staff it.

How much does it cost to hire a software developer?

By the hour: Lead or Architect USD 55–⁠60, Senior 45–⁠50, Mid 35–⁠40, Junior 30. A Senior at 160 hours is USD 7,200–⁠8,000 a month.

By the hour, by seniority, published: Lead or Architect USD 55–⁠60, Senior 45–⁠50, Mid 35–⁠40 and Junior 30. A Senior working 160 hours is USD 7,200–⁠8,000 a month. Billing is per hour worked, with a 6-month minimum, and the same table applies to every role. Invoices are in US dollars from DX Clouditive LLC, monthly in arrears, net 15.

How much does it cost to hire a DevOps, SRE or platform engineer?

The same published band as every role, by the hour: Lead or Architect USD 55–⁠60, Senior 45–⁠50, Mid 35–⁠40, Junior 30. A Senior working 160 hours is USD 7,200–⁠8,000 a month, billed per hour worked with a 6-month minimum.

Is there a minimum term?

Yes, 6 months, billed per hour worked. After that, 30 days' notice ends the engagement.

Do you run background checks?

Yes. Every engineer passes a background check before assignment, and we complete your security questionnaire or vendor assessment on request.

What language do the engineers work in?

English, Spanish or Portuguese, 100% in whichever your team uses.

Hire an AI engineer: what our AI work includes

Our AI work includes a multi-model system on Vertex AI where the cost per approved output chooses the model, evals that score an agent's output, and independent judges tested on labelled examples before service. An AI engineer you hire does this kind of work on your product: Senior USD 45–⁠50 an hour, Lead USD 55–⁠60.

Hire a software developer: inside your team, on your systems

Software developers join as forward deployed engineers: inside your team and your systems, on your real problem and not on a ticket queue. A US consultancy uses our engineers this way to meet its own clients' demand, across projects in every area we sell. We staff AI, platform, DevOps, SRE, QA and forward deployed roles; for any other role, we tell you on the first call whether we can.

Hire a DevOps engineer: pipelines, infrastructure and releases

On a fintech platform, a senior DevOps and platform lead from Clouditive works alongside the client's developers. Since the new release pipeline, production releases went from about 1 a week to nearly 4, and production release failures fell from 23% to 4%, measured on the client's own systems. A DevOps engineer you hire does this work: Senior USD 45–⁠50 an hour.

Hire a QA engineer: real browsers and accessibility checks

Our QA work runs real flows in a real browser. On a govtech coordination portal, a Playwright click-through with axe on WCAG 2.2 AA tags passed 10 steps at 1440 and 390 px with 0 failed requests and 0 console errors. A QA engineer you hire builds this kind of suite inside your team: Junior USD 30 an hour, Mid 35–⁠40, Senior 45–⁠50.

What if the engineer doesn't work out?

We replace them and cover the handover at no cost to you, and we present the replacement within 10 business days. After the 6-month minimum, 30 days' notice ends the engagement. Code and intellectual property are yours from day 1, and engineers work in your own accounts with SSO and MFA and least privilege, revoked when they leave.

Can we try before committing to 6 months?

Yes. Start with a 2-week fixed-price package, from USD 4,000, and see how we work before the 6-month minimum begins. The 2-week packages are CI/CD & IaC, IDP Foundations, AI Agent Pilot, QA Automation Foundations and SRE / Observability Foundations. Each has a published price and a written scope.

Tell us your case.

We reply to every request within 1 business day. We sign an NDA before the call if you ask.