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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 8 days Buildkite's roles stay open a median of 24 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 31% of Buildkite's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Buildkite
- moderate 2 stale, 0 reposted of 13 open
- Hiring momentum
- 21 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Buildkite's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Buildkite.
About this role
The Cloud Efficiency Engineer role at Buildkite focuses on optimizing cloud costs, particularly in AWS, by tracing cost signals to their technical causes and implementing measurable optimizations. You will work closely with engineering teams and finance to build cost models, drive efficiency changes, and ensure that savings do not compromise reliability or customer experience. This hands-on position requires you to deliver tangible results and improve cost visibility while collaborating across departments.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Buildkite as an employer.
What you need
- Experience delivering AWS savings in a scaled production environment
- Strong systems diagnosis skills
- Ability to influence teams without direct management
- Proficiency in reading and writing code
- Sound trade-off judgment regarding reliability and cost savings
- Ability to establish baselines and verify savings in production
Nice to have
- Experience with Datadog or observability cost optimization
- FinOps engineering experience
- Background in building cost attribution or automated cost guardrails
- Experience with GraphQL at scale or CI/CD
- Finance or commercial background alongside engineering
What you get
- Work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks a year
- 20 days paid annual leave plus 10 days sick & carer's leave
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers (6 for secondary)
- Remote-work allowance for home-office kit or co-working
- Confidential EAP & mental health support
- Support for learning and growth with time and budget for conferences and courses
Worth weighing
- Role requires significant collaboration with other teams, which may impact autonomy
- Focus on cost optimization without sacrificing reliability could be challenging
- No specific salary or compensation details provided
- Remote work is available, but candidates must be in ANZ or PST timezone
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Listed by Buildkite on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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