Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cost Optimization
StackAdapt7 months ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$182k - $251k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve internal tooling, dashboards, and reporting systems that improve visibility into infrastructure and engineering costs.
- Analyze and optimize cloud infrastructure and engineering-owned vendor spending.
- Develop cost attribution, unit-cost, and infrastructure financial models connecting consumption to services, products, and business usage.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to understand how architecture, usage patterns, and technical decisions affect costs and product economics.
- Collaborate with finance on infrastructure cost forecasts, budgeting inputs, financial models, and long-term planning.
- Provide infrastructure cost insights that inform product pricing and broader business strategy.
- Establish infrastructure cost KPIs, reporting processes, and governance practices.
- Support vendor management, including utilization analysis, contract renewals, cost analysis, and optimization.
- Drive cost-conscious engineering practices while balancing performance, reliability, scalability, and business needs.
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 for technical and business decisions.
- Ability to own complex initiatives, influence stakeholders, and communicate with technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Experience at a growing technology company spanning infrastructure, product, and business operations is preferred.
- Experience with infrastructure unit economics, product pricing decisions, FinOps, cloud cost management, infrastructure financial planning, showback, chargeback, or cost attribution frameworks is preferred.
- Familiarity with CloudZero, Apptio, CloudHealth, or similar cost management platforms is preferred.
- Experience managing engineering vendors, infrastructure partnerships, or procurement processes is preferred.
- Experience building a new engineering capability, internal platform, or operational process from the ground up is preferred.
Benefits
- Base salary bands are listed as $196,000–$269,500 CAD in Canada and $182,400–$250,800 USD in the USA.
- Retirement, 401(k), and pension savings programs are available globally.
- Competitive paid time off packages, including birthdays off, are offered.
- Comprehensive mental health care and health benefits from the first day of employment are provided.
- Work-from-home reimbursements and optional global WeWork membership are available.
- The company provides training and onboarding, personal development support, programmatic courses and certifications, parental leave, and social and team events.
- Benefits may vary by country and engagement type, and the posting is marked remote (#LI-REMOTE).
About StackAdapt
StackAdapt builds a programmatic demand-side platform that lets brands and agencies plan, buy, and optimize digital ads across native, display, video, connected TV, and audio. Its AI-driven platform supports cross-channel targeting, measurement, and attribution, sold as SaaS/media through managed and self-serve campaigns. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Toronto, the company is privately held and serves customers across North America, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM.