Cloud FinOps Engineer II
Cargurus
$109,000 - $136,000 / year
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Description
Who we are
At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we’re the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we’ve been profitable for over 15 years.
What we do
The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus—our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!
Role overview
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.
You’ll play a critical role in improving the accuracy and coverage of CarGurus’ cloud cost attribution, expanding self-service cost visibility, and helping engineering teams make informed decisions about cloud and AI spend. You’ll build automation and platform capabilities that establish repeatable anomaly-triage and savings workflows, support unit-cost metrics, and reduce the manual effort required to understand and optimize cloud consumption.
What you'll do
- 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.
- Participate in code reviews, incident response, operational support, and continuous improvement.
- Communicate findings clearly and turn analysis into actionable engineering recommendations.
What you'll bring
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, cloud cost management, or FinOps-related engineering in an enterprise environment. Experience may come from cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or a dedicated FinOps role.
- 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.
- Experience with CloudZero, AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, or similar FinOps tooling is preferred.
- 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.
- Experience partnering with Finance or FP&A on cloud budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, and business reporting is a plus.
The displayed range represents the expected annual base salary / On-Target Earnings (OTE) for this position. On-Target Earnings (OTE) is inclusive of base salary and on-target commission earnings, which applies exclusively to sales roles.
Individual pay within this range is determined by work location and other factors such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
This annual base salary forms part of a comprehensive Total Rewards Package. In addition to benefits, this role may qualify for discretionary bonuses/incentives and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
Working at CarGurus
We reward our Gurus’ curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us. Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways. A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being. Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.
CarGurus may require in-person interviews as part of our hiring process, particularly for positions based in our Boston and Dublin offices. Candidates selected for an in-person interview will be notified in advance. Please be aware that travel expenses are the responsibility of the candidate.
We welcome all
CarGurus strives to be a place to which people can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potential—starting with our hiring process. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. That’s why we hope you’ll apply even if you don’t check every box listed in the job description. We also encourage you to tell your recruiter if you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process due to a disability so we can provide the appropriate support. We want to know what only you can bring to CarGurus. #LI-Hybrid
Benefits
- stock options
About this role
CarGurus' Cloud Enablement team is building out FinOps as a core engineering capability, and this role sits at the center of that effort. You'd own cloud cost attribution, visibility, and optimization across the company's AWS infrastructure—work that directly influences how engineering teams understand and manage their cloud and AI spending. The position combines platform engineering with financial accountability: you'll build dashboards, automation, and self-service tools that make cost data actionable rather than opaque.
The day-to-day involves infrastructure-as-code work (Terraform, Python, Go, Bash), CloudZero integrations, anomaly detection workflows, and partnership with Engineering, Product, and Finance teams. You'll tackle concrete problems like improving tagging accuracy, establishing unit-cost metrics, automating savings opportunities like rightsizing and Savings Plans, and increasingly, governing AI infrastructure costs. This isn't a pure analytics role—it's engineering-focused, with an emphasis on building repeatable systems and reducing manual effort.
You'll need at least two years in AWS infrastructure, cloud cost management, or FinOps engineering at an enterprise scale, plus solid scripting skills and familiarity with cost tools like CloudZero or AWS Cost Explorer. The role suits someone who enjoys both technical depth and cross-functional collaboration, who's comfortable working with incomplete data and iterating toward accuracy, and who's curious about how cloud economics actually work. The position is full-time, in-office in Boston, with a salary range of $109,000–$136,000 plus equity, bonuses, and standard benefits.
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