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Engineering18 days agoRemote

StackAdapt

Staff Engineer, FinOps & Cost Platform

FinOpscost optimizationAWScloudengineeringplatform engineeringdata modelingtelemetryshowbackchargeback

Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Senior

Years experience

5-10

Location

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Full job description

StackAdapt is hiring a Staff Engineer, FinOps & Cost Platform to build and lead engineering cost-management capabilities. The role involves building systems, tooling, and data models to improve visibility and optimization of engineering spend, including cloud infrastructure and vendor costs. Responsibilities include developing cost platforms, analyzing AWS and vendor spend, improving cost attribution, implementing cost models, collaborating with engineering, finance, and procurement teams, and establishing cost governance practices. Candidates should have a strong infrastructure or platform engineering background, deep AWS experience, proven cost optimization skills, strong analytical and data modeling abilities, and excellent communication skills. Experience with CloudZero, Apptio, CloudHealth, showback/chargeback, telemetry, and vendor cost governance is a plus. The position is full-time, senior level, and remote, located in Vancouver.

What you'll do

  • 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

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

Tech stack

AWSCloudZeroApptioCloudHealth

Benefits

Highly competitive salaryRetirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globallyCompetitive Paid time off packages including birthdays offAccess to a comprehensive mental health care programHealth benefits from day one of employmentWork from home reimbursementsOptional global WeWork membershipRobust training and onboarding programCoverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certificationsParental leave programFriendly, welcoming, and supportive cultureSocial and team events

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