Staff Engineer, FinOps & Cost Platform
About The Position
StackAdapt is a leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision, leveraging an AI-powered Marketing Platform that performs 465 billion automated optimizations per second. The platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The company is seeking a Staff Engineer, FinOps & Cost Platform, a founding individual contributor role, to build and lead its engineering cost-management capability. This position focuses on improving visibility, understanding, and optimization across all engineering-controlled spend, including cloud infrastructure and engineering-owned technical vendors. The successful candidate will be responsible for building the systems, tooling, and data models required to make engineering spend attributable, explainable, and actionable. In the near term, the role will drive measurable savings, and over time, it will contribute to building showback, chargeback, and unit-cost capabilities to deepen the understanding of the cost of services, platforms, and customer footprint.
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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
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
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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
