Staff Engineer, FinOps & Cost Platform
Core
Build and lead a founding individual contributor role to create visibility, understanding, and optimization across all engineering-controlled spend, including cloud infrastructure and technical vendors.
Role type
Staff Engineer, FinOps & Cost Platform
Builds
Internal cost platform, reporting models, telemetry-backed cost models, and showback/chargeback capabilities
Domain
Cloud infrastructure cost management & FinOps
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Infrastructure or platform engineering, AWS cloud environments, cost optimization, capacity economics, data modeling, tooling development, cross-functional influence
Preferred skills
CloudZero/Apptio/CloudHealth platforms, showback/chargeback modeling, telemetry/unit-cost modeling, engineering-vendor governance, building new capabilities from scratch
Technologies
AWS, CloudZero, Apptio, CloudHealth
Responsibilities
Build internal cost platform and reporting model, own analysis and optimization of AWS and vendor spend, improve cost attribution and tagging, define and implement showback/chargeback models, partner with engineering on optimization, partner with finance/procurement on forecasting and vendor rationalization, design telemetry-backed cost models, establish governance and cost-aware practices
Seniority
Staff, founding individual contributor