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