Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. They are seeking a Staff Engineer, FinOps & Cost Platform to build and lead their engineering cost-management capability, focusing on improving visibility and optimization across engineering-controlled spend.
Responsibilities
- Build the internal cost platform and reporting model for engineering spend
- Own analysis and optimization of AWS and engineering-owned vendor spend
- Improve cost attribution, tagging, and data quality
- Define and implement showback, chargeback, and unit-cost models
- Partner with engineering teams to drive optimization opportunities
- Partner with finance and procurement on forecasting, renewals, and vendor rationalization
- Design telemetry-backed cost models that connect infrastructure spend to real usage
- Establish governance, review cadences, and cost-aware engineering practices
Skills
- Strong infrastructure or platform engineering background
- Deep experience with AWS or comparable cloud environments
- Proven experience with cost optimization, capacity economics, or FinOps-like work
- Strong analytical and data-modeling ability
- Hands-on experience building tooling, dashboards, or internal platforms
- Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority
- Strong communication across technical and business audiences
- Experience with CloudZero, Apptio, CloudHealth, or similar platforms
- Showback or chargeback experience
- Telemetry or unit-cost modeling experience
- Engineering-vendor utilization and cost-governance experience
- Prior experience building a new internal capability from scratch
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary
- Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally
- Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave program
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!
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