Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cost Optimization
About The Position
StackAdapt is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cost Optimization to shape how infrastructure investments are managed, forecast, and optimized across the engineering organization. This high-impact individual contributor role sits at the intersection of infrastructure engineering, product, and finance. The engineer will examine infrastructure cost origins and scaling patterns, and connect engineering decisions to business outcomes. The role involves building systems, tooling, and data models that make infrastructure spending more transparent, predictable, and actionable. In addition to identifying cost-optimization opportunities, the engineer will establish forecasting models, unit economics, and infrastructure cost insights that support capacity planning, product pricing, and long-term business decisions. The position calls for a strong infrastructure engineering background and the ability to relate infrastructure and product usage to costs and business decisions.
Requirements
- Strong background in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering, with experience owning or influencing infrastructure strategy and technical decisions.
- Deep understanding of AWS or comparable cloud environments, including infrastructure architecture, resource utilization, and cost drivers.
- Experience analyzing infrastructure costs, identifying optimization opportunities, and understanding the financial implications of technical decisions.
- Understanding of how infrastructure consumption translates into unit costs, product economics, and broader business outcomes.
- Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product, finance, or business stakeholders.
- Exposure to infrastructure budgeting, forecasting, cost modeling, or capacity planning.
- Strong analytical skills and experience building tools, dashboards, or data models to support technical and business decisions.
- Ability to take ownership of complex initiatives, influence stakeholders, and communicate effectively across technical and nontechnical audiences.
Nice To Haves
- Experience at a growing technology company with responsibilities spanning infrastructure, product, and business operations.
- Experience developing infrastructure unit economics or contributing to product pricing decisions.
- Familiarity with FinOps principles, cloud cost management, or infrastructure financial planning.
- Experience with showback, chargeback, or cost-attribution frameworks.
- Experience with CloudZero, Apptio, CloudHealth, or similar cost-management platforms.
- Experience managing engineering vendors, infrastructure partnerships, or procurement processes.
- Previous experience building a new engineering capability, internal platform, or operational process from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve internal tooling, dashboards, and reporting systems to improve visibility into infrastructure and engineering-related costs.
- Analyze and optimize cloud infrastructure and engineering-owned vendor spending, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and scalability.
- Develop cost-attribution and unit-cost models connecting infrastructure consumption to services, products, and business usage.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to understand how infrastructure architecture, usage patterns, and technical decisions affect costs and product economics.
- Collaborate with finance to develop infrastructure cost forecasts, financial models, and reliable data inputs for budgeting and long-term planning.
- Provide infrastructure cost insights to inform product pricing decisions and broader business strategy.
- Establish infrastructure cost KPIs, reporting processes, and governance practices to improve financial accountability.
- Support infrastructure vendor management, including cost analysis, utilization, contract renewals, and optimization opportunities.
- Drive cost-conscious engineering practices across teams while balancing performance, reliability, scalability, and business needs.
Benefits
- Highly competitive salary.
- Retirement, 401(k), or pension savings globally.
- Competitive paid time off packages, including birthdays off.
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care program.
- Health benefits from day one of employment.
- Work-from-home reimbursements.
- Optional global WeWork membership and hubs in London and Toronto.
- Robust training and onboarding program.
- Coverage and support for personal development initiatives, including conferences, courses, and books.
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning.
- Parental leave program.
- Social and team events.
- Friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture. Benefits and perks may vary depending on country of employment and nature of engagement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
