Staff augmentation
From $45/hrAdd a remote specialist from Latin America or Europe to your team. You direct the priorities, tools and delivery.
- Month-to-month engagement
- Two-week trial under agreed terms
- Working-hour overlap confirmed upfront
Senior remote talent. US-based partner.
From $45/hr · month-to-month staff augmentation

Engineering partner for growth-stage companies
Start with the work
Running EKS, AKS, GKE or a self-managed cluster? We shape the shortlist around your environment, container builds, networking and deployment workflow. Review production examples that match the scale and complexity of your platform.
Define the friction: manual releases, inconsistent environments or hard-to-diagnose failures. Look for practical experience with delivery pipelines, configuration, observability and recovery. Choose the work that will make a measurable difference for your product team.
A platform needs clear ownership after deployment. Agree on access, change reviews, working-hour overlap and any incident or on-call duties. Evaluate troubleshooting and communication through your interviews before deciding who joins the team.
Technical fit
Tell us which skills are essential and which can be learned on the job. We match the search to your responsibilities, then your team evaluates the shortlist.
Odesa company-reported figures across engagements. Interview timing is an average; availability and your hiring process determine the start date.
Client relationships

“We started seeing strong engineer profiles from Odesa within days, and the process from tech interview to onboarding was smooth and straightforward. The remote team Val built for us now feels like part of our in-house team and has contributed to multiple product rollouts over the past year.”

“Val came through for us big time. He provided us with top-tier engineers very quickly.”

“We were impressed with their cost, speed, and having a US-based interface.”
From brief to working together
Share your stack, delivery goals, budget and working-hour needs.
Review relevant project experience and conduct your role-specific interviews.
Confirm the rate, hours, start date and trial terms before work begins.
Your team directs delivery. Odesa remains your point of contact for the engagement.
Engagement options
Add a remote specialist from Latin America or Europe to your team. You direct the priorities, tools and delivery.
On-site, hybrid or remote. We coordinate sourcing and interviews; you hire the person directly.
Final rates depend on experience, responsibilities and availability. Your US agreement with Odesa.co defines trial, notice, billing and replacement terms. For a defined delivery project or release review, explore custom development or Human QA.
Cost comparison
Compare a local hire with a remote engineer working offshore. These presets are not live salary data, a quote or guaranteed savings.
Adjust the fields to match your hiring needs.
Fill in your team details and hit "Calculate" to see an illustrative annual cost comparison with Odesa's talent network.
Planning assumptions: staff costs use preset salary × location factor × 1.30, compared with hourly rate × 2,080 hours. Recruitment compares an assumed $25,000 agency fee with Odesa’s $7,999 fee per hire; compensation is excluded. This is not a quote or guaranteed saving.
Your product context
Tenant boundaries, scaling policies and release workflows
Network policies, access controls and workload isolation
GPU workloads, model serving and training pipelines
Peak-traffic planning, canary releases and recovery testing
Workload isolation, data access boundaries and audit logging
Developer platforms, self-service environments and standard deployment paths
Before you decide
Kubernetes staff augmentation starts at $45/hr on month-to-month terms. The final quote depends on experience, responsibilities and the agreed schedule. Direct recruitment is a separate $7,999 service per successful hire; engineer compensation is additional. Confirm scope and included services before hiring.
Odesa reports an average of 4.2 days from contract to first interview across engagements. Timing depends on your requirements, candidate availability and interview process. Agree on the shortlist criteria and target start date during the brief; the average is not a guaranteed onboarding date.
They work remotely: offshore from the EU and Eastern Europe, or nearshore from Latin America, with overlap on US hours agreed before the start. You contract with Odesa.co, a US company in Lighthouse Point, Florida, so terms, billing and support stay in the US. If the role must be on-site or hybrid, direct recruitment covers that.
Container image builds and Kubernetes operations are related, but they are different responsibilities. Include Dockerfiles, image security, registries and build pipelines in your brief if the role owns them. Review each candidate’s experience with the container runtime and delivery tools you actually use.
Yes. Staff augmentation adds an engineer to the team you manage. Define the tools, responsibilities, access requirements and working-hour overlap before the engagement. Any incident response or on-call coverage must be agreed explicitly; it is not automatically included in an hourly role.
Yes. Specify the cloud provider, cluster architecture and responsibilities in your brief. We match the search to those requirements; do not assume every candidate has equivalent experience across all platforms. Use the interview to review upgrades, networking, storage and recovery scenarios relevant to your environment.
Staff augmentation includes a two-week trial under agreed terms. Review fit, communication and delivery against the initial goals. Confirm notice, billing and replacement terms before work begins. Direct recruitment has a separate 90-day replacement guarantee defined by the agreement.

A personal conversation
Share the role, your current stack and the work ahead. We’ll discuss the right experience, availability and next steps.