Senior Software Engineer - Cloud FinOps

About this Role

This engineering role is on a nascent, growing engineering team. The team is responsible for products that touch many areas of engineering organizations at HashiCorp, so applicants will need to excel at collaboration, have product-focused mindsets, and be comfortable iterating in an agile manner towards solutions.

In this role, you can expect to :

Key Objectives :

FinOps Fundamentals : Develop skills in FinOps practices and principles, with a focus on cloud infrastructure optimization.

Data-Driven Decision Making : Learn to democratize cost and usage data to inform engineering decisions, promoting transparency and accountability.

Cloud Efficiency : Understand how to strategically drive infrastructure efficiency improvements, developing dashboards to analyze costs and unit economics.

Key Responsibilities :

Design and deliver solutions that improve FinOps capabilities and foster a FinOps engineering culture.

Create dashboards and analytics to track cloud spend, identifying opportunities for optimization and cost savings.

Collaborate with Engineering teams to develop product architecture that considers cost drivers and efficiency gains.

Develop financial and usage dashboards, working with finance teams on budget forecasting and tagging.

Establish policies, controls, and best practices to govern cloud spending across the organization.

Additional Tasks :

Learn to develop solutions and frameworks for cost-effective testing, deployment, and monitoring of services.

Work with engineering teams to identify opportunities for infrastructure efficiency improvements.

Monitor cloud consumption at the account level, detecting anomalies and unplanned spikes.

Skills and Experience :

6+ years of experience in professional backend software development in cloud environments

Proficiency in Golang , Python, or any other programming language is necessary.

Proficiency in one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their associated services, pricing models, and management tools.

Familiarity with Cost Management Solutions such as AWS CUDOS, CloudZero, etc.

Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Qlik, PowerBI, etc…) is desirable

Relevant certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect Certification and FinOps Foundation Certified Practitioner, are a plus.

Strong experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub, and configuration management tools such as Ansible is preferred

Team player with effective interpersonal skills. Able to collaborate with remote teams effectively.

Worked with SaaS or another type of managed software offerings