Nuro
self-driving technology
SeniorSoftwareEngineer,FinOps
“Senior Software Engineer, FinOps at Nuro. Skills: Cloud efficiency, System design, Cost optimization, Python/Go. Own cloud efficiency end-to-end. Identify highest-ROI opportunities”
What You'll Achieve.
deliver systems that capture those gains as durable platform behavior; ensure new systems are efficient by default; deliver real-time visibility, anomaly detection, and fine-grained attribution; prevent regression
Industry & Context.
Identify the highest-ROI opportunities; Optimize performance and efficiency at scale; Eliminate systemic waste
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
software engineering fundamentals in Python or Go, experience building and operating production systems end-to-end, experience with public cloud platforms (GCP preferred), experience with data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar), query optimization at scale, proven track record of delivering measurable improvements in performance, efficiency, or cost on production systems, system design skills, ability to evaluate and influence tradeoffs across cost, performance, reliability, and developer experience, ability to operate in ambiguous, cross-team environments, drive initiatives from problem definition to execution, excellent communication skills, presenting tradeoffs to both engineers and executive stakeholders
Nice to Have
FinOps, cloud cost engineering, large-scale efficiency platforms, Deep expertise in GCP at scale, GCS, GKE, BigQuery, Compute Engine, reservations/CUDs, Cloud Monitoring, Terraform, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, data infrastructure, ML systems, large-scale batch processing, building cost attribution, anomaly detection, forecasting systems on top of cloud billing data
What You'll Do.
Own cloud efficiency end-to-end
Identify highest-ROI opportunities
Deliver systems that capture gains
Drive cost-aware system design
Partner with teams on architecture
Raise bar for engineers reasoning about storage
Optimize performance and efficiency at scale
Build cost observability and attribution
Eliminate systemic waste
Automate lifecycle and tiering
Continuously clean up resources
Drive cross-org optimization
Land high-impact improvements
Establish cost governance
Scale processes for budgeting
Enable teams to build cost-efficient systems
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
partners deeply across every engineering organization; Partner with teams on architecture and design reviews; Partner across engineering to land high-impact improvements
Communication Scope
Excellent communication skills; presenting tradeoffs to both engineers and executive stakeholders
Process & Methodology
drive initiatives from problem definition to execution
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