Staff Site Reliability Engineer, FinOps
Sumo Logic3 days ago
San José, Costa RicaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build financial models for cloud and AI costs, including unit economics, COGS, spend forecasts, scenario analysis, and sensitivity analysis.
- Model cloud commitment strategies such as CSP, RI, and EDP while balancing savings and utilization risk.
- Design cost allocation and attribution methods connecting cloud and AI spend to teams and products.
- Own cost regression tooling and drive investigation, resolution, and accountability for cost increases.
- Lead cost optimization initiatives and roadmap development across engineering teams.
- Operate FinOps tooling and cost data pipelines with monitoring, alerting, data-quality checks, and automation.
- Apply SRE practices to cost management, including budget thresholds, cost alerting, blameless reviews, and reliability tradeoff analysis.
- Automate cost reporting and analysis and contribute insights to weekly LiveSite operational reviews.
- Mentor and guide junior team members.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Sciences, Engineering, Finance, or a related field is required; a Ph.D. is a plus.
- 7+ years of professional experience in data or software engineering roles.
- 2+ years of experience with cloud financial management or a FinOps framework.
- Demonstrated ability to build and operate data pipelines with complex sources.
- Experience partnering with Finance or FP&A on budgeting, forecasting, or gross-margin analysis.
- Operational expertise in high-scale, reliable 24/7, multi-tenant global SaaS.
- Strong coding, debugging, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Experience with Scala, Java, Golang, or Python; Scala experience is highly beneficial.
- Ability to influence results and communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- 100% remote in Costa Rica.
- Optional office access in San José.
About Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic builds a cloud-native SaaS platform for log management, security analytics (SIEM), and observability used by DevOps and security teams to monitor and troubleshoot applications and infrastructure. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, it was acquired by Francisco Partners and taken private in 2023. The business is subscription-based and supports cloud and hybrid environments.