Cloud FinOps Engineer II
Boston · Boston (1001 Boylston Street) · USD 109,000-136,000 · 2+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 15, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Boston · Boston (1001 Boylston Street)
- Salary
- USD 109,000-136,000 · Base salary
About the role
- CarGurus is seeking a Cloud FinOps Engineer II to join the Cloud Enablement team and help establish FinOps as an engineering capability.
- This role will improve cloud cost visibility, attribution, governance, and optimization across Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain cloud cost attribution, tagging, and allocation capabilities across AWS.
- Implement and improve CloudZero integrations, dashboards, reports, and data quality checks.
- Develop automation for cost anomaly detection, alerting, and investigation workflows.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Finance, and FinOps stakeholders to define useful unit-cost metrics.
- Support showback and chargeback capabilities by improving ownership, service, team, and cost-center mappings.
- Help establish FinOps checkpoints in the software development lifecycle.
- Identify and automate cloud savings opportunities, including rightsizing, lifecycle management, Savings Plans, and Graviton adoption.
- Contribute to AI cost governance, including Bedrock usage visibility, token or inference cost attribution, budgets, and model-cost controls.
- Build self-service tools and documentation that allow engineering teams to answer cost questions independently.
- Write reliable Python, Go, Bash, Terraform, or similar automation.
Requirements
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, cloud cost management, or FinOps-related engineering in an enterprise environment.
- Experience supporting production workloads in AWS.
- Working knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure automation.
- Experience with Python, Go, Bash, or another scripting language.
- Understanding of cloud cost concepts, including tagging, allocation, usage reporting, and anomaly detection.
- Ability to work with incomplete data and improve reporting accuracy over time.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- A customer-focused approach to partnering with engineering and product teams.
- Curiosity about AI infrastructure, model usage, and the economics of cloud services.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with CloudZero, AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, or similar FinOps tooling is preferred.
- Experience partnering with Finance or FP&A on cloud budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, and business reporting is a plus.
Benefits
- Equity for all employees
- Career development programs
- Corporate giving programs
- Employee resource groups (ERGs)
- Flexible hybrid model
- Robust time off policies
- Daily free lunch
- New car discount
- Meditation and fitness apps
- Commuting cost coverage
Workplace
- A flexible hybrid model
Skills
- AWS
- CloudZero
- AWS Cost Explorer
- CUR
- Terraform
- Python
- Go
- Bash
- Bedrock
- FinOps
