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We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we’re the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we’ve been profitable for over 15 years.\nWhat we do\nThe market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus-our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!\nRole overview\nCarGurus is seeking a Cloud FinOps Engineer II to join the Cloud Enablement team and help establish FinOps as an engineering capability. This role will improve cloud cost visibility, attribution, governance, and optimization across Engineering.\nYou’ll play a critical role in improving the accuracy and coverage of CarGurus’ cloud cost attribution, expanding self-service cost visibility, and helping engineering teams make informed decisions about cloud and AI spend. You’ll build automation and platform capabilities that establish repeatable anomaly-triage and savings workflows, support unit-cost metrics, and reduce the manual effort required to understand and optimize cloud consumption.\nWhat you'll do\nBuild and maintain cloud cost attribution, tagging, and allocation capabilities across AWS.\nImplement and improve CloudZero integrations, dashboards, reports, and data quality checks.\nDevelop automation for cost anomaly detection, alerting, and investigation workflows.\nPartner with Engineering, Product, Finance, and FinOps stakeholders to define useful unit-cost metrics.\nSupport showback and chargeback capabilities by improving ownership, service, team, and cost-center mappings.\nHelp establish FinOps checkpoints in the software development lifecycle.\nIdentify and automate cloud savings opportunities, including rightsizing, lifecycle management, Savings Plans, and Graviton adoption.\nContribute to AI cost governance, including Bedrock usage visibility, token or inference cost attribution, budgets, and model-cost controls.\nBuild self-service tools and documentation that allow engineering teams to answer cost questions independently.\nWrite reliable Python, Go, Bash, Terraform, or similar automation.\nParticipate in code reviews, incident response, operational support, and continuous improvement.\nCommunicate findings clearly and turn analysis into actionable engineering recommendations.\nWhat you'll bring\n2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, cloud cost management, or FinOps-related engineering in an enterprise environment. Experience may come from cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or a dedicated FinOps role.\nExperience supporting production workloads in AWS.\nWorking knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure automation.\nExperience with Python, Go, Bash, or another scripting language.\nUnderstanding of cloud cost concepts, including tagging, allocation, usage reporting, and anomaly detection.\nExperience with CloudZero, AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, or similar FinOps tooling is preferred.\nAbility to work with incomplete data and improve reporting accuracy over time.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.\nA customer-focused approach to partnering with engineering and product teams.\nCuriosity about AI infrastructure, model usage, and the economics of cloud services.\nExperience partnering with Finance or FP&A on cloud budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, and business reporting is a plus.\nThe displayed range represents the expected annual base salary / On-Target Earnings (OTE) for this position. On-Target Earnings (OTE) is inclusive of base salary and on-target commission earnings, which applies exclusively to sales roles.\nIndividual pay within this range is determined by work location and other factors such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.\nThis annual base salary forms part of a comprehensive Total Rewards Package. In addition to benefits, this role may qualify for discretionary bonuses/incentives and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).\nPosition Pay Range\n$109,000—$136,000 USD\n\nWorking at CarGurus\nWe reward our Gurus’ curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us. Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways. A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being. Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.\nCarGurus may require in-person interviews as part of our hiring process, particularly for positions based in our Boston and Dublin offices. Candidates selected for an in-person interview will be notified in advance. Please be aware that travel expenses are the responsibility of the candidate.\nWe welcome all\nCarGurus strives to be a place to which people can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potential-starting with our hiring process. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. That’s why we hope you’ll apply even if you don’t check every box listed in the job description. We also encourage you to tell your recruiter if you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process due to a disability so we can provide the appropriate support. 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