FinOps Site Reliability Engineer (USA)

We’ve built a modern, all-in-one lending platform that empowers our clients to innovate, adapt, and better serve their customers. As an established company with a proven product, we are scaling our team to meet growing demand and expand our platform’s capabilities.
We’re looking for a FinOps Site Reliability Engineer to drive cost observability and optimization across our infrastructure. You’ll own the end-to-end implementation of cost visibility tooling, billing automation, and efficiency improvements that directly impact our unit economics. This is an opportunity to build foundational FinOps capabilities at a growing fintech while working with modern cloud infrastructure at scale.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or a similar infrastructure-focused role.
• Professional experience with Python and familiarity with Go.
• Hands-on experience with cloud cost management, preferably on Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience building data pipelines and reporting systems with near-real-time latency requirements.
• Strong experience with Datadog or similar observability platforms.
• A track record of driving measurable cost optimizations in cloud environments.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences, including finance stakeholders.
• Experience thriving in a collaborative, fast-paced environment with a high degree of ownership.

Would be a plus

• Experience with FinOps frameworks or certification (FinOps Certified Practitioner).
• Hands-on experience with BigQuery or similar data warehousing tools.
• Previous experience in fintech or another highly-regulated industry.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain cost observability systems and automation using Python and Go.
• Build and own our customer billing automation pipeline for invoicing.
• Architect reporting systems that surface profit and loss by product, SKU, environment, loan type, and customer.
• Implement and operate Datadog Cloud Cost Management, including deployment, service configuration, monitoring, and runbooks.
• Develop dashboards and tooling to track aggregated cost metrics (p50, p99) to operate loans by loan type, customer, and environment.
• Identify and execute cost optimization initiatives with a target of reducing cost of operating loans by 20%.
• Collaborate with engineering and finance stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Establish FinOps practices and processes that scale with the organization.