Staff FinOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• This is a highly strategic and hands-on role grounded in the FinOps Foundation Framework, with direct accountability for translating financial insights into engineering action and measurable cost optimization outcomes.
• You will:
• Lead Cloud Financial Strategy & Governance
• Drive FinOps practices across AWS and Azure using the FinOps Foundation Framework domains: Understand Usage and Cost, Quantify Business Value, Optimize Usage and Cost, and Manage the FinOps Practice.
• Establish and maintain cost allocation models, tagging standards, and governance frameworks that enable accurate, actionable financial visibility.
• Develop and enforce cloud financial policies, standards, and operational best practices across Engineering and CloudOps teams.
• Partner with leadership to support cloud cost reduction initiatives and long-term infrastructure efficiency goals.
• Drive Cost Visibility & Financial Insights
• Own and manage CloudZero configuration, including taxonomy, tagging governance, and cost allocation rules.
• Deliver actionable reporting and analysis for Engineering, Product, Finance, and leadership stakeholders, including anomaly detection, trend analysis, forecasting, and variance reporting.
• Maintain visibility across AWS, Azure, Datadog, Elastic, and related platforms.
• Advance cost intelligence initiatives, including unit economics and cost-per-customer analysis.
• Optimize Cloud & SaaS Spend
• Identify and drive optimization opportunities across Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, rightsizing, storage optimization, and SaaS licensing.
• Develop and maintain utilization and cost-per-unit reporting across key infrastructure and vendor platforms.
• Partner with Engineering teams to improve cost-aware architecture and operational decision-making.
• Track optimization initiatives through measurable outcomes and ongoing KPI reporting.
• Build & Scale the FinOps Practice
• Embed FinOps processes into budgeting, forecasting, operational reviews, and engineering workflows.
• Coach Engineering and CloudOps teams on cost accountability and sustainable financial operations under a "You Build It, You Run It" model.
• Automate repeatable governance and reporting workflows using SQL, Python, and infrastructure tooling.
• Drive adoption of emerging FinOps standards such as the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS).
• Support Emerging AI & Platform Cost Management
• Establish financial visibility and governance models for AI and machine learning workloads, including cost-per-token analysis and budget guardrails.
• Partner with t

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