# Cloud Efficiency Engineer (AWS/FinOps)

**Company**: Buildkite
**Location**: ANZ Region
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Cloud Efficiency Engineer (AWS/FinOps) to join our Engineering team. As a Cloud Efficiency Engineer, you will own Buildkite's cloud efficiency picture end-to-end, tracing COGS signals down to technical drivers, building models, shipping changes, and proving savings.

Responsibilities:

- Follow the money: trace cost signals to technical causes, down to customer-level job costs and state machine changes

- Build and maintain cost models for common and expensive operations

- Rank opportunities into a defensible portfolio: expected saving, risk, effort, and involvement

- Ship fixes: implement safe, measurable optimisations, and partner with engineering teams

- Prove it landed: establish baselines, verify realised savings, and build guardrails and tooling

- Translate between engineering and Finance

Requirements:

- Delivered meaningful, measured AWS savings in a scaled production environment

- Working engineer with hands-on experience in reading, writing, and shipping code

- Strong systems diagnosis skills

- Sound trade-off judgement

- Ability to influence teams without direct management

- Stand behind numbers with robust methodology

Nice to Have:

- Experience with Datadog or observability cost optimisation

- FinOps engineering experience or close collaboration with finance on unit economics and cost attribution

- Built granular cost attribution or automated cost guardrails

- Worked with GraphQL at scale, developer tooling, CI/CD, or cloud infrastructure products

- Scaled SaaS, platform, or observability organisation with a significant AWS footprint

- Finance or commercial background alongside engineering

Benefits:

- Work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks a year

- 20 days paid annual leave, 10 days sick & carer's leave

- 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers

- Remote-work allowance for home-office kit, co-working, or working elsewhere

- Confidential EAP & mental health support

- Support for learning and growth with time and budget for conferences, courses, and coaching

- Retirement and health coverage

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- FinOps
- GraphQL
- Datadog
- CI/CD
- cloud infrastructure

### Nice to have
- developer tooling
- observability

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