Founding Devops/FinOps Engineer

FinOps Weekly; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (ESOP)

Hybrid work model

Competitive Dutch market salary

Paid time off and holidays

Direct line to founders

Laptop provided

Job summary

Yasu is building autonomous AI agents to optimize cloud costs across customers. You’ll own the FinOps outcomes, work with Platform and Cloud teams to identify savings, and design guardrails and policies for safe autonomous actions in production.

Requirements include 4+ years of cloud cost optimization, strong IaC skills (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation) and coding ability (Python/Bash). Join a startup moving fast with equity and hybrid work.

Qualifications

• 4+ years hands-on in cloud cost optimization.
• Know IaC and automation; experience writing runbooks.
• Experience cutting six or seven figures of cloud spend is a plus.
• Proficient with Terraform min; Bicep or CloudFormation preferred.

Responsibilities

• Be the FinOps brain inside our agentic system.
• Own the customer outcome and drive savings.
• Call on customer Platform/Cloud teams to prove savings in production.
• Push autonomy with guardrails for safe autonomous actions.
• Design policies to earn customer trust in automated fixes.
• Shift cost left and build engines to catch costly infra decisions in PRs.
• Feed agents with customer engagements to drive patterns.

Skills

Cloud cost optimization

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

Python

Bash

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep

Python

Bash

Job description

Imagine building something that actually matters. Not another social app or e-commerce platform, but AI that autonomously manages billions in cloud infrastructure while engineers sleep. We're Yasu, and we're tackling one of the biggest problems in tech: cloud waste. It's a €512B problem that's exploding with GenAI adoption, and we're the first to truly solve it with autonomous AI agents. At Yasu, we prevent tomorrow's waste. Our platform doesn't wait for humans to interpret reports. It acts. Automatically. Safely. Successfully. Our founding team brings deep expertise: an ex-AWS sales leader who has taken multiple teams from 0 to $100M in revenue, and an expert AI architect who's built and shipped complex AI systems from 0 to production 3x. We're backed by some of the leading VCs. Read about our recent raise - https://techfundingnews.com/yasu-ai-cloud-engineer-pre-seed-funding-2025/

Tasks

Be the FinOps brain inside our agentic system. Your patterns, your judgment, your rules - encoded into agents that run across every customer. Own the customer outcome. Get on calls with our customers' Platform and Cloud teams, find the savings, prove them in production. Push the autonomy frontier with guardrails. Decide what's safe for agents to fix on their own. Design the policies that make customers trust autonomous action in production. Shift cost left. Build the engine that catches expensive infrastructure decisions in the PR, not the invoice. Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation. Feed the agents. Every customer engagement becomes a new optimization pattern, encoded into our multi-agent system so the next 100 customers benefit automatically.

Requirements

You're a great fit if you Have 4+ years hands-on in cloud cost optimization. You've personally cut six or seven figures of cloud spend. Live in the console and the IaC repo, not in slides. You know which workloads should never run on-demand. Write code to automate your work. Python, Bash, whatever fits. You don't click through 80 accounts. Know IaC properly. Terraform at minimum, ideally Bicep or CloudFormation too. Communicate like an engineer to engineers. You can run a working session with a Head of Platform, find savings in their console live, and write the runbook by EOD. Move fast and ship. Bias for action. You fix what you find. Use AI tools daily.

Bonus points for Background at AWS, GCP, Azure, or a high-growth infrastructure or DevOps tooling company Owned real FinOps numbers inside a mid-market or enterprise company Open source contributions in cloud, IaC, or FinOps FinOps certification (nice to have, your savings portfolio matters more than more) Early engineer at a startup before

Benefits

• Competitive Dutch market salary
• Meaningful founding-engineer equity (ESOP)
• Hybrid/flexible. We care about output, not hours logged
• Paid time off and company holidays
• Direct line to the founders. You shape the product, the roadmap, and the engineering culture
• Laptop, headphones, merch, company BBQs

The Anti-Pitch

We're not for everyone. If you're a FinOps process consultant this is an engineering role. We build software. If you want a polished playbook handed to you, you'll hate it here If you want work-life balance, join after our Series B If you prefer meetings over shipping, we're not a fit If 'optimizing cloud cost' sounds boring to you, please don't apply