Senior FinOps Capacity Engineer

8–10+ years in capacity engineering, cloud cost management, SRE, or platform/infrastructure engineering in a public cloud environment, partnering closely with engineering and finance on infrastructure investment and cost predictability.

Experience modeling capacity and cloud spend for large-scale, distributed systems, including forecasting, scenario planning, and cost-to-serve analysis.

Strong understanding of cloud deployment architectures (compute, storage, networking, data) and the cost and capacity drivers behind them.

Proficiency with cloud cost and usage tools (e.g., FinOut, Cloudability, AWS Cost Explorer, GCP Billing/Export) and observability platforms to derive capacity signals.

Advanced data analysis and modeling skills (e.g., Google Sheets, SQL/BigQuery) to build, validate, and communicate capacity models and forecasts—even with imperfect data.

Background in FinOps or cloud financial management, especially in high-traffic or subscription environments, and familiarity with readiness and reliability practices (e.g., load testing, capacity readiness reviews, Always Ready–style programs).

The Cloud Cost & Capacity Engineering (CCCE) team bridges finance, engineering, data, and product to turn cloud usage and spend into strategic insight and predictable investment decisions.

We enable teams across The New York Times to make smart, data-informed choices about how they use the cloud, balancing cost, capacity, and risk across AWS and GCP.

As a Senior Capacity Engineer, you are the primary technical authority for how we model, plan, and optimize cloud capacity.

You will own end-to-end capacity strategy for key platforms and critical user journeys (CUJs), defining how we balance headroom, efficiency, and resilience.

You'll partner closely with engineering, SRE, and Finance to make sure we can handle peak moments without surprise spend or over-provisioning.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of capacity engineering, architecture, and cloud economics, and who is comfortable influencing senior stakeholders without direct people management responsibility.