Founding Devops/FinOps Engineer

<p><strong>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.</strong></p>
<p>We're Yasu, and we're tackling one of the biggest problems in tech: cloud waste. It's a <strong>€512B problem</strong> that's exploding with GenAI adoption, and we're the first to truly solve it with autonomous AI agents.</p>
<p>At Yasu, we prevent tomorrow's waste. Our platform doesn't wait for humans to interpret reports. It acts. Automatically. Safely. Successfully.</p>
<p>Our founding team brings deep expertise: an <strong>ex-AWS sales leader</strong> who has taken multiple teams from 0 to $100M in revenue, and an <strong>expert AI architect</strong> who's built and shipped complex AI systems from 0 to production 3x. We're backed by some of the leading VCs.</p>
<p>Read about our recent raise - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://techfundingnews.com/yasu-ai-cloud-engineer-pre-seed-funding-2025/">https://techfundingnews.com/yasu-ai-cloud-engineer-pre-seed-funding-2025/</a></p>
<h2 id="tasks">Tasks</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Be the FinOps brain inside our agentic system. Your patterns, your judgment, your rules — encoded into agents that run across every customer.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Own the customer outcome. Get on calls with our customers' Platform and Cloud teams, find the savings, prove them in production.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Push the autonomy frontier with guardrails. Decide what's safe for agents to fix on their own. Design the policies that make customers trust autonomous action in production.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Shift cost left. Build the engine that catches expensive infrastructure decisions in the PR, not the invoice. Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Feed the agents. Every customer engagement becomes a new optimization pattern, encoded into our multi-agent system so the next 100 customers benefit automatically.</strong></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="requirements">Requirements</h2>
<p><strong>You're a great fit if you</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Have 4+ years hands-on in cloud cost optimization. You've personally cut six or seven figures of cloud spend.</li>
<li>Live in the console and the IaC repo, not in slides. You know which workloads should never run on-demand.</li>
<li>Write code to automate your work. Python, Bash, whatever fits. You don't click through 80 accounts.</li>
<li>Know IaC properly. Terraform at minimum, ideally Bicep or CloudFormation too.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Move fast and ship. Bias for action. You fix what you find.</li>
<li>Use AI tools daily. Claude, Cursor, agents.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Bonus points for</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Background at AWS, GCP, Azure, or a high-growth infrastructure or DevOps tooling company</li>
<li>Owned real FinOps numbers inside a mid-market or enterprise company</li>
<li>Open source contributions in cloud, IaC, or FinOps</li>
<li>FinOps certification (nice to have, your savings portfolio matters more)</li>
<li>Early engineer at a startup before</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="benefits">Benefits</h2>
<ul>
<li>Competitive Dutch market salary</li>
<li>Meaningful founding-engineer equity (ESOP)</li>
<li>Hybrid/flexible. We care about output, not hours logged</li>
<li>Paid time off and company holidays</li>
<li>Direct line to the founders. You shape the product, the roadmap, and the engineering culture</li>
<li>Laptop, headphones, merch, company BBQs</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>The Anti-Pitch</strong></p>
<p>We're not for everyone.</p>
<ul>
<li>If you're a FinOps process consultant this is an engineering role. We build software.</li>
<li>If you want a polished playbook handed to you, you'll hate it here</li>
<li>If you want work-life balance, join after our Series B</li>
<li>If you prefer meetings over shipping, we're not a fit</li>
<li>If "optimizing cloud cost" sounds boring to you, please don't apply</li>
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