Remote
Remote
Mid Level
Full Time
7 days ago
FinOpscloud cost managementKubernetesremoteFinOps engineer
Requirements
- •Previous experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, or cloud governance
- •Deep cloud fluency including understanding of cross-AZ data transfer, NAT gateway costs, and instance family price-performance ratios
- •Kubernetes expertise with knowledge of cost allocation in K8s
- •Ability to communicate effectively with both engineers and finance teams
- •Bias for action with ability to write scripts to automate tagging hygiene
- •CI/CD awareness and understanding of how deployment patterns affect cost
- •Ability to speak SQL and CI/CD with engineers and pivot to forecasting and margin analysis with finance
What You'll Do
- •Own the strategy and enable cost-aware engineering by building systems and attribution structures (tagging, showbacks) that give teams ownership of their impact
- •Partner with Finance to explain variances, maintain clean cost allocation, and help the business understand margins by product line
- •Shift FinOps left by moving cost conversations from billing cycle to design doc
- •Provide architectural advice on cost to engineers and be a credible resource for cost-related questions
- •Build systems that give teams autonomy to own their own margins, eliminating reactive cost scrambles
- •Create a culture where engineers make better cost decisions daily
- •Write automation and influence architecture to improve cost efficiency
- •Collaborate with senior engineers on major infrastructure decisions with significant financial impact
Nice to Have
- •Experience with tools like Vantage, CloudHealth, or Kubecost
- •Experience with ClickHouse, Kafka, Postgres
- •Experience using SQL for querying cost data
- •Strong opinion on when not to use Spot instances
About PostHog
PostHog is an open source platform that helps build successful products by providing tools to evaluate feature impact and customer value.
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