What are the responsibilities and job description for the FinOps & Developer Experience Engineering Manager position at CloudZero?
About the Role:
CloudZero is seeking a FinOps evangelist and engineering leader to drive our internal FinOps strategy and manage our Developer Experience (DX) team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives as a player-coach—leading by example while gradually transitioning into a full-time leadership role as the team expands.
You will be CloudZero’s first dedicated FinOps engineer, working closely with finance and engineering teams to optimize cloud costs, improve visibility, and drive cost efficiency. As a CloudZero power user, you will leverage our platform to implement best-in-class FinOps practices, share insights, and educate internal teams on cost optimization strategies.
Beyond FinOps, you will manage and grow our Developer Experience (DX) team, ensuring CloudZero’s engineering organization operates at peak efficiency. You would be responsible for managing and coaching the engineers on this team, helping set backlog, tracking projects, and communicating back to the engineering organization on what initiatives the team is undertaking and what impacts they are having. It’s a responsibility that has the potential to impact the entire engineering organization at CloudZero.
Why you:
This role is a unique opportunity to blend technical leadership with industry influence, shaping both CloudZero’s FinOps strategy and the broader FinOps community. If you’re excited about optimizing cloud costs, improving developer experience, and being a recognized FinOps thought leader, we’d love to hear from you!
Responsibilities:
FinOps Evangelism & Leadership:
- Act as a FinOps thought leader—advocating best practices internally and externally.
- Speak at industry conferences, meetups, and webinars to share insights on cloud cost optimization and FinOps implementation.
- Engage with the FinOps and DevOps communities, contributing to discussions, blogs, and public forums.
- Collaborate with finance and engineering teams to ensure accurate cloud cost reporting, track key metrics, and identify savings opportunities.
- Optimize CloudZero’s own cloud spend using our platform, driving measurable cost savings.
Developer Experience & Engineering Enablement
- Lead and grow the DX team, coaching engineers and shaping the team’s long-term strategy.
- Improve developer efficiency by streamlining tools, processes, and automation.
- Manage infrastructure and vendor contracts to optimize costs and enhance developer workflows.
- Track and communicate DX initiatives to the broader engineering organization, demonstrating impact.
- Experience leading or working within FinOps, DevOps, CloudOps, or Developer Experience teams.
- Strong AWS expertise; experience with other cloud providers is a plus.
- 2 years of engineering management experience.
- Exceptional communication skills—comfortable speaking at events and engaging with technical and non-technical audiences.
- A passion for coaching engineers and enabling high-performance teams.
- High-agency, action-oriented mindset with a drive to make an impact.
About CloudZero:
Cloud cost management is one of the biggest challenges organizations face today. As cloud adoption accelerates, so do the complexities and associated costs - and macroeconomic conditions only increase pressure to prove cloud efficiency. That’s why we built CloudZero: a SaaS platform at the intersection of next-generation cloud cost management and FinOps. CloudZero ingests billing and usage data from all cloud, SaaS, and PaaS providers, organizes it in real-time according to our customers’ business structures, lets customers view it at any level of time or resource granularity, and ultimately empowers them to make more informed business decisions.
Since our founding in 2016, our mission has been to make efficient innovation a reality for every cloud-driven organization. At CloudZero, we believe every engineering decision is a buying decision, yet the cost conversation often bypasses the engineers who drive those determinations. To solve this, we’ve built a dynamic, single-page application that answers the complex, data-heavy questions every cloud-based organization needs to ask if they want to grow their company profitably.
To date, we’ve raised over from leading venture capital firms nationwide. We’re solving problems of massive scale, business importance, and complexity in a space that needs it more than ever. We’re growing rapidly and would love for you to be a part of it.
