[Hiring] Senior FinOps Data Engineer @Lifted, an Upwork Company™

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior FinOps Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain the data ingestion, automation, and analytical platforms that support cloud cost transparency, attribution, and optimization. This role will work with large-scale billing, usage, telemetry, performance, and financial data. The work will enable Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Finance stakeholders to make faster, data-driven decisions and trust the underlying data. The ideal candidate is a current, hands-on data engineer who can build production data pipelines and cost-focused data products, improve their long-term maintainability, and clearly explain their technical decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, Spark, and Scala.
• Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools such as dbt, Airflow, and Dagster.
• Hands-on AWS experience, including AWS Glue, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Athena. AWS experience is required.
• Hands-on experience with GCP and Snowflake.
• Experience architecting and improving the long-term maintainability of end-to-end ELT and ETL data pipelines.
• Strong data modeling experience, including schema design and schema maturity.
• Experience processing, validating, and auditing data at scale.
• Exposure to CI/CD development processes and version control.
• Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform.
• REST API programming and data-integration experience.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical ability, and production troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to explain technical concepts and personally delivered work clearly to non-technical audiences.

Requirements

• Experience working with FinOps teams or performing cloud cost-optimization duties.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Certified Engineer certification.
• Experience working with Datadog API endpoints.
• Experience with Go.

Benefits

• Remote contract opportunity.
• Candidates must be located in LATAM.
• Full-time allocation of approximately 40 hours per week.
• Candidates must be available to work a U.S.-based EST or CST schedule.
• The contract is expected to continue through March 31, 2027.