Founding Cloud FinOps Engineer for Autonomous AI

Yasu; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Dutch market salary

Equity (ESOP)

Hybrid/flexible work

Paid time off & company holidays

Direct line to founders

Laptop, headphones, merch

Job summary

Yasu is building AI that autonomously manages billions in cloud infrastructure, solving the €512B cloud-waste problem. The founding team includes a former AWS sales leader and a top AI architect. We offer a hybrid work setup in the Netherlands with equity and a direct line to the founders.

Join as a senior FinOps-focused engineer, driving cost optimization across customer environments, shaping guardrails for autonomous agents, and delivering measurable savings in production.

Qualifications

• 4+ years hands-on in cloud cost optimization.
• Live in the console and the IaC repo, not in slides.
• Write code to automate your work with Python, Bash, etc.
• Know IaC properly: Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation.
• Communicate like an engineer to engineers and run sessions with stakeholders.
• Move fast and ship with bias for action.
• Use AI tools daily (Claude, Cursor, agents).

Responsibilities

• Be the FinOps brain inside our agentic system.
• Own the customer outcome by engaging Platform and Cloud teams and proving savings in production.
• Push the autonomy frontier with guardrails and design policies for safe autonomous action.
• Shift cost left by building the engine that catches expensive decisions in the PR using Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation.
• Feed the agents by encoding every customer engagement into new optimization patterns for future customers.

Skills

Cloud cost optimization

Python/Bash scripting

Engineering collaboration

AI tooling usage

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

Python

Job description

Yasu is building AI that autonomously manages billions in cloud infrastructure, solving the €512B cloud-waste problem. The founding team includes a former AWS sales leader and a top AI architect. We offer a hybrid work setup in the Netherlands with equity and a direct line to the founders.

Join as a senior FinOps-focused engineer, driving cost optimization across customer environments, shaping guardrails for autonomous agents, and delivering measurable savings in production.