Founding FinOps Engineer

Yasu

Job Location:

Utrecht - Netherlands

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 12 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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.

Were Yasu and were tackling one of the biggest problems in tech: cloud waste. Its a 512B problem thats exploding with GenAI adoption and were the first to truly solve it with autonomous AI agents.

At Yasu we prevent tomorrows waste. Our platform doesnt 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 whos built and shipped complex AI systems from 0 to production 3x. Were backed by some of the leading VCs.

Read about our recent raise - 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 whats 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

Youre a great fit if you

Have 4 years hands-on in cloud cost optimization. Youve 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 dont 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. Claude Cursor agents.

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)
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

Were not for everyone.

If youre a FinOps process consultant this is an engineering role. We build software.
If you want a polished playbook handed to you youll hate it here
If you want work-life balance join after our Series B
If you prefer meetings over shipping were not a fit
If optimizing cloud cost sounds boring to you please dont apply

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.Were Yasu and were tackling one of the biggest problems in tech: cloud waste. Its a 512B problem thats exploding wit...