Senior SRE: AI-Driven Performance & FinOps Engineer

Wayfair; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayfair is seeking a Senior FinOps & TCVM Engineer to optimize cloud and AI investments across GCP and SaaS platforms. You will map costs to infrastructure, build AI-assisted cost tools, and work with SREs to embed cost awareness into pipelines.

You’ll collaborate with AI tooling teams, implement canary and guardrail strategies, and measure cost-efficiency against throughput and reliability, ensuring safe, scalable cost optimization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or related fields managing large-scale environments.
• Hands-on GCP experience with GKE, BigQuery, and cost tuning.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Helm, and automated deployment pipelines.
• Experience with APM, tracing, and defining SLOs/SLIs.

Responsibilities

• Architect telemetry & dependency mapping across services and infra to tie costs to SLOs.
• Profile and monitor system performance, latency, and error rates before/after optimizations.
• Collaborate with architects and platform teams to maintain dependency graphs and ownership matrices.
• Develop AI-assisted cost optimization playbooks and validate PRs generated by Devin/Cursor.
• Build sandbox tools to test resource advisories against application SLOs and guardrails.

Skills

SRE & production

GCP & cloud-native

Terraform & CI/CD

Observability & profiling

Automation & scripting

AI tool fluency

FinOps fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

Buildkite

Jenkins

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Job description

Wayfair is seeking a Senior FinOps & TCVM Engineer to optimize cloud and AI investments across GCP and SaaS platforms. You will map costs to infrastructure, build AI-assisted cost tools, and work with SREs to embed cost awareness into pipelines.

You’ll collaborate with AI tooling teams, implement canary and guardrail strategies, and measure cost-efficiency against throughput and reliability, ensuring safe, scalable cost optimization.