Calendly is a company that focuses on enabling reliability, scalability, and performance for millions of users through its Infrastructure team. They are seeking a Staff Cloud FinOps Engineer to bridge Finance, Engineering, and Operations, ensuring sustainable cloud and SaaS usage while driving innovation and cost optimization.
Responsibilities:
- Build foundational FinOps capabilities, including cost visibility, forecasting, dashboards, and actionable reporting
- Establish and lead Calendly’s FinOps practice by driving cloud and SaaS cost optimization across compute, storage, databases, observability, and search platforms
- Analyze infrastructure usage and cost drivers to design and implement durable, high-impact technical optimizations
- Partner with Infrastructure and Data teams to influence architecture, tooling, and operational decisions with cost efficiency in mind
- Collaborate with Finance and Procurement to support budgeting, forecasting, and vendor cost optimization efforts
- Translate complex cost and usage data into clear recommendations for engineering leaders and executives
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, FinOps, or a related technical role, with demonstrated impact beyond a single team or system
- Deep hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms and SaaS providers (e.g., GCP or AWS; Datadog, Elastic, managed databases), including cost and usage optimization at scale
- Proven ability to define and drive cost optimization initiatives from problem identification through technical execution and measurable outcomes
- Experience operating effectively in high-ambiguity environments, setting direction where no established FinOps practice exists
- Strong analytical skills with a track record of turning complex billing and usage data into strategic, durable engineering solutions
- Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to shape decisions with senior engineering leaders and business partners without formal authority
- Availability for participation in an on-call rotation, ensuring timely and effective responses to critical production issues outside of regular working hours
- Experience building or scaling a FinOps practice as an early or first hire
- Track record of driving company-wide or multi-team infrastructure cost initiatives with sustained impact
- FinOps Foundation certification or equivalent depth of applied experience
- Background in Infrastructure, SRE, or Data platform teams supporting large-scale, cloud-native systems
- Experience designing or implementing cost-aware platforms, guardrails, or self-service tooling for engineering teams
- Strong understanding of cloud vendor pricing models, discount programs, and long-term cost strategy tradeoffs
- Experience presenting cost, ROI, and optimization strategies to executive or VP-level stakeholders
- Experience supporting high-growth SaaS products with usage-based or variable cost models