Staff FinOps Engineer

We are seeking a skilled Staff Cloud Platform Engineer to join our team and drive cost optimization across our cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in cloud platforms and financial operations (FinOps) to analyze usage, implement cost-saving strategies, and enhance visibility into cloud expenses. Collaborating with development teams, finance, and IT leadership, you will play a critical role in ensuring efficient resource utilization, accurate forecasting, and actionable financial reporting. If you are passionate about cloud technology and financial management, we invite you to help shape our cloud cost strategy and deliver measurable impact.

*Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.; Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Analyze cloud usage and cost data to identify savings opportunities.
• Leverage a deep understanding of cloud platforms and/or application architecture to identify and implement cost savings opportunities (reserved instances, savings plans and other savings mechanisms)
• Implement rightsizing strategies, eliminate unused resources, and create cost control policies.
• Lead technical discussions with development teams and software architects to identify cost optimization opportunities in their application workloads.
• Monitor cost metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for cloud FinOps, including utilization, cost savings activities, and tracking cost variance to budget.
• Manage the cloud forecasting process and help the organization improve accuracy for future cloud expenses.
• Provide visibility into cloud expenses across business units and departments and ensure that costs are shown back to the appropriate areas.
• Maintain cost allocation strategies including tagging, allocating new workloads and updating financial tooling.
• Develop financial reports and dashboards to monitor cloud usage, track spending and perform trend analysis.
• Implement automation tools to track and report cloud usage and costs.
• Use Cloud FinOps principles and tools to automate the financial management of cloud resources and provide real-time cost analysis.
• Set up and manage automated alerting for unexpected cost spikes and implement processes to promptly resolve issues before significant costs are incurred.
• Work with finance and IT leadership teams to support budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.

Success in this Role Looks Like

• Engineering teams are proactively designing cost-efficient workloads before deployment.
• Legacy environments are continually being modernized with cost optimized architectures
• Reduction in idle, underutilized and deprecated resources month over month.
• Improved forecast accuracy and unit economics visibility.
• Increased adoption of FinOps practices across engineering and product organizations.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps.
• 2+ years of experience in a FinOps or cost optimization role.
• Deep technical expertise with Azure and/or AWS services (Azure preferred, AWS acceptable)
• Strong understanding of cloud pricing models, billing data, and cost drivers.
• Experience using FinOps tools (Ternary preferred; Cloudability, CloudHealth, or CloudZero acceptable).
• Proven ability to translate technical and financial insights into actionable recommendations.

Preferred Skills:

• Strong analytical skills with experience in SQL, Excel, or data visualization platforms.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent experience preferred.
• Skilled in automation/scripting (Python, PowerShell, or Terraform) and integrating cost optimization into pipelines.

We provide these great perks and benefits:

• Robust health, dental and vision insurance plans
• Generous 401 (K) savings plan
• Education assistance
• On-site wellness, fitness center, food, and coffee service
• And many more, check out our benefits site HERE.