Staff Engineer, FinOps & Cost Platform
StackAdaptResponsibilities
- 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 connecting 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.
- Experience with CloudZero, Apptio, CloudHealth, or similar platforms is preferred.
- Showback or chargeback experience is preferred.
- Telemetry or unit-cost modeling experience is preferred.
- Engineering-vendor utilization and cost-governance experience is preferred.
- Experience building a new internal capability from scratch is preferred.
Benefits
- Retirement, 401K, or pension savings globally.
- Competitive paid time off, including birthdays off.
- Comprehensive mental health care program.
- Health benefits from the first day of employment.
- Work-from-home reimbursements.
- Optional global WeWork membership and access to London and Toronto hubs.
- Robust training and onboarding program.
- Support for personal development initiatives such as conferences, courses, and books.
- Programmatic courses and certifications.
- Parental leave program.
- Social and team events.
- Benefits and perks vary by country and engagement, with local regulations and partner policies applying where StackAdapt lacks a legal entity.
- Remote work is indicated by the #LI-REMOTE designation.
About StackAdapt
StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels. Our state-of-the-art platform is where some of the most progressive work in machine learning meets cutting-edge user experience. StackAdapt is designed around the three core pillars of programmatic—planning, executing and analyzing. StackAdapt is ranked as the number 1 DSP on G2. For six consecutive years with over hundreds of reviews, StackAdapt has been recognized as a high performer and the highest-ranking DSP in customer satisfaction by G2. StackAdapt was also recognized as an Enterprise Fast 15 winner as part of the Technology Fast 50™ program in 2024 and is one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work in 2024. Learn more about StackAdapt here: www.stackadapt.com. And if you're looking for a change, we'd love to have you on our team—check out our open roles by visiting: www.stackadapt.com/careers. StackAdapt is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. We have teams and client support across North America, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.