Cloud FinOps Engineer

What’s in it for you?

Ready to make a serious impact? Millions of people already rely on Calendly, and we’re still in the midst of exciting product growth — it’s a fantastic time to join us. Everything you’ll work on here will accelerate your career to the next level. If you want to learn, grow, and do the best work of your life alongside the best people you’ve ever worked with, then we hope you’ll consider allowing Calendly to be a part of your professional journey.

What’s so great about working on Calendly’s Infrastructure team?

The Cloud Infrastructure team sits at the center of Calendly’s platform, enabling reliability, scalability, and performance for millions of users around the world. We own the systems and platforms that power Calendly’s core product, and our work directly impacts every engineering team across the company. As part of this team, you’ll work on high-leverage problems at the intersection of infrastructure, product, and finance.

You’ll have the opportunity to influence architectural decisions, introduce new practices and tooling, and shape how Calendly thinks about sustainable growth and operational excellence. This is a team that values strong technical judgment, thoughtful tradeoffs, and long-term thinking.

Why do we need you? We are looking for a Staff Fin Ops Engineer who brings deep technical expertise, strong ownership, and a passion for driving impact s role serves as a critical bridge between Finance, Engineering, and Operations, ensuring sustainable cloud and SaaS usage while enabling rapid innovation. You will report to the Director of Infrastructure and will be responsible for owning Fin Ops strategy and execution across Calendly’s cloud and SaaS infrastructure, partnering closely with Infrastructure, Data, Product, and Finance teams.

On a typical day,
you will:

• Build foundational Fin Ops capabilities, including cost visibility, forecasting, dashboards, and actionable reporting
• Establish and lead Calendly’s Fin Ops practice by driving cloud and SaaS cost optimization across compute, storage, databases, observability, and search platforms
• Analyze infrastructure usage and cost drivers to design and implement durable, high-impact technical optimizations
• Partner with Infrastructure and Data teams to influence architecture, tooling, and operational decisions with cost efficiency in mind
• Collaborate with Finance and Procurement to support budgeting, forecasting, and vendor cost optimization efforts
• Translate complex cost and usage data into clear recommendations for engineering leaders and executives

• 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, Fin Ops, or a related technical role, with demonstrated impact beyond a single team or system
• Deep hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms and SaaS providers (e.g., GCP or AWS; Datadog, Elastic, managed databases), including cost and usage optimization at scale
• Proven ability to define and drive cost optimization initiatives from problem identification through technical execution and measurable outcomes
• Experience operating effectively in high-ambiguity environments, setting direction where no established Fin Ops practice exists
• Strong analytical skills with a track record of turning complex billing and usage data into strategic, durable engineering solutions
• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to shape decisions with senior engineering leaders and business partners without formal authority
• Availability for participation in an on-call rotation, ensuring timely and effective responses to critical production issues outside of regular working hours.

• Experience building or scaling a Fin Ops practice as an early or first hire
• Track record of driving company-wide or multi-team infrastructure cost initiatives with sustained impact
• Fin Ops Foundation certification or equivalent depth of applied experience
• Background in Infrastructure, SRE, or Data platform teams supporting large-scale, cloud-native systems
• Experience designing or implementing cost-aware…