Cloud FinOps Engineer
Posted 15 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Cloud FinOps Engineer II”
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- Level
- II
- Expected experience
- 2+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
No salary listed for this role.
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.