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