Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Cost Utilization

## Responsibilities - Build and improve the systems, standards, and workflows that help teams understand the real cost of the services they run. - Develop resource tagging and labeling approaches, improve billing data quality, and create tooling that supports better decisions across AWS and GCP. - Work through technical and organizational ambiguity, connect infrastructure data with business context, and help teams act on cost signals with confidence. - Build cloud billing data pipelines that normalize multi-cloud cost data using the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS). - Improve cloud resource tagging and labeling standards so teams can understand spend by service, environment, and ownership. - Develop cost anomaly detection, forecasting, and alerting workflows that give teams timely insight into infrastructure usage. - Extend observability systems so cost signals can be reviewed alongside reliability and operational data. ## Requirements - Design and maintain cloud resource tagging and labeling strategies across GCP and AWS to support accurate cost attribution. - Develop tooling and pipelines to ingest, normalize, and report on cloud billing data using the FOCUS specification. - Automate cost anomaly detection, forecasting, and alerting so engineering teams can respond quickly to changes in infrastructure spend. - Contribute to GitLab's observability and monitoring stacks, including Prometheus, LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, and Mimir), and ELK, with a focus on surfacing cost efficiency signals. - Partner with Finance and Engineering leadership to support cloud cost forecasting for planning and budget discussions. - Act as a subject matter expert for cloud cost attribution, tagging strategy, and FOCUS adoption across GitLab Infrastructure. ## Nice to Have - Collaborate with Finance and Compliance teams on audits, c ## Benefits - GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.