Cloud Efficiency Engineer (AWS/FinOps)
Core
Own end-to-end cloud efficiency for AWS and Datadog, tracing COGS signals to technical drivers, building cost models, and shipping optimizations to reduce costs without impacting reliability.
Role type
Senior hands-on IC Cloud Efficiency Engineer (FinOps)
Builds
Production cost models, observability efficiency tools, and measurable cloud optimizations
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) + Observability (Datadog) + FinOps
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
AWS cost optimization, systems diagnosis, trade-off judgement, cross-functional influence, data modeling, production code implementation
Preferred skills
Datadog cost optimization, FinOps engineering, GraphQL at scale, CI/CD infrastructure, SaaS platform experience, finance/commercial background
Technologies
AWS, Datadog, GraphQL
Responsibilities
Trace cost signals to technical causes (customer-level jobs, state machines, GraphQL functions), build and maintain cost models for common operations, rank optimization opportunities by saving/risk/effort, implement safe measurable optimizations in code or configuration, drive observability efficiency, establish baselines and verify realized savings, build guardrails and tooling for cost visibility
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
