Staff Platform Engineer, Cloud Cost

Manage FLYR’s cloud spending by ensuring our engineering department runs as efficiently as possible.  As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will partner with engineering leadership to help them optimize the usage of our cloud infrastructure, mainly Google Cloud Platform (CGP).  Successful candidates will possess hands-on & technical depth in engineering architecture, creating a strategy for cloud spend, expertise in the cloud stack, and strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills. Ideally, the candidate will have worked with modern serverless and cloud-native stacks including BigQuery/Redshift, Google Cloud Function/AWS Lambda, Dataflow, Google Kubernetes Engine GKE (or AWS EKS), etc.

• Identify and project manage cloud optimization initiatives across the Engineering organization. 
• Implement automated cloud spend reports for leadership and Engineering to measure optimization efficiencies and operational excellence.
• Prioritize cloud optimization opportunities and communicate strategy against the company engineering roadmap.
• Report successful company initiatives and tie that back to monetary amounts in savings.
• Maintain responsibility for ensuring that our costs are well understood,  identifying and driving infrastructure optimization activities to ensure we make the most out of our investments,  and forecasting costs.
• Work closely with leadership to implement the cloud costs support systems needed for a continuously growing company.
• Develop insightful views into cost and usage data that enable executors to understand spending.
• Create Engineering awareness and drive behavior change to make high-cost and efficiency improvements across the organization.
• Use software tools to provide data visualization,  and gather feedback from respective engineering teams.
• Be a point of contact for our cloud provider and maintain current knowledge of relevant cloud optimization, regulations, policies, and procedures.

• Hands-on proficiency in modern serverless and cloud-native stacks including BigQuery/Redshift,  Google Cloud Function/AWS Lambda, Dataflow, Google Kubernetes Engine GKE (or AWS EKS), etc.
• Experience working in a related discipline such as platform engineering, technical management, infrastructure engineering, etc. 
• Ability to effectively facilitate and take the lead in meetings on cost management reviews and initiatives 
• Proven experience in having the responsibility of optimizing the costs of a growing engineering organization
• Passion for driving cost-saving strategies & optimization
• Strong background and understanding of SaaS,  PaaS, and IaaS (ideally GCP but open to AWS or Azure)
• Have an engineering background with the ability to understand architecture
• Advanced analytical skills and proficiency in SQL are required
• Basic hands-on experience with Python is preferred

• Equity in Series C startup with high growth potential
• Comprehensive healthcare plans (Choice of PPO & HMO available)
• Generous PTO policy and flexible working arrangements
• 401K with company match
• Free Breakfast/Lunch (in office)
• Uber Eats - $30 Daily while in the office, and $30/Monthly (Hybrid Employees)
• 100% Paid Parental Leave for 12 Weeks
• $300 Home office set-up stipend (one time)