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Cloud Efficiency Engineer (AWS/FinOps)

Buildkite·ANZ Region·Posted 9 September 2026

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About Buildkite Buildkite's CI platform is trusted by the world's leading engineering teams, helping ship software used by more than 1 billion people every day. Companies including Canva, Meta, Mistral AI, and NVIDIA rely on Buildkite to run builds, tests, and deployments on their infrastructure, ours, or both — giving them the speed, reliability, and flexibility to ship with confidence. About the Role Every build, test, and deployment our customers run costs us something. Right now we can see the top-line number — our AWS and Datadog spend — and we can see revenue. What we can't see clearly enough is the line between them: which operations drive our cost of goods sold, how that changes as customers scale, and which changes would move it. If you’ve been in a similar role but have been frustrated by not being able to go super deep on this and model different categories/scenarios and costs then you’ll be able to scratch that itch here. Cost questions arrive from the exec team as business questions, and today the answers get assembled part-time by people whose main job is something else. This role is designed to close this gap. This is a hands-on engineering role, not a reporting…

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