Senior Cloud Capacity Engineer
The New York Timesabout 3 hours ago
Base Salary
$140k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain capacity models for major platforms and user journeys.
- Translate growth into infrastructure capacity plans balancing performance and cost.
- Quantify cost vs. risk trade-offs and provide recommendations.
- Partner with finance to improve cloud forecast accuracy.
- Analyze scaling behavior and implement cost-efficient resource patterns.
- Identify capacity risks and drive solutions through automation.
- Leverage tooling to produce actionable capacity signals.
- Create concise views and recommendations for stakeholders.
- Act as a technical partner to engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers on capacity planning best practices.
Requirements
- 8–10+ years in capacity engineering or cloud cost management in a public cloud environment.
- Experience modeling capacity and cloud spend for large-scale systems.
- Strong understanding of cloud deployment architectures and their cost drivers.
- Proficiency with cloud cost and usage tools and observability platforms.
- Advanced data analysis and modeling skills to build and communicate capacity models.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s).
- Company-matching 401(k) plan.
- Paid vacation and sick days.
- Paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps