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Samba is a media intelligence company. We know what the world is watching, reading, and thinking about — in real time, at scale, across every screen. Our data exists with the consent of over a billion people, organized into the most complete picture of consumer attention ever built. The biggest brands in the world use that picture to make smarter decisions. We think it’s the most interesting data asset on the planet, because it’s the most culturally relevant.
We are seeking a lead FinOps engineer to join our Internal Measurement team and help us establish and lead a formal FinOps practice. You will help in designing, building, and implementing a comprehensive cloud cost management framework covering cost optimization, attribution, forecasting, and governance.
In this role, you will directly influence our bottom line by managing costs incurred by our significant cloud footprint across both AWS and GCP including attribution of that spend back to specific products and business initiatives. This financial visibility is critical for empowering our engineering and product teams to innovate efficiently and sustainably. This is your chance to shape Samba cloud future and embed a culture of cost-consciousness and discipline across the organization.
What You'll Do
- Develop, communicate, and drive cloud cost initiatives across our organization.
- Create tools and dashboards that provide stakeholders in Product, Engineering, and Finance with visibility and actionable insights into their cloud spend.
- Identify and analyze the key drivers of cloud costs and report findings to budget owners.
- Build and maintain models for cloud cost forecasting, spend anomaly detection, and cost attribution.
- Manage our employment of AWS Savings Plans or GCP Committed-Use Discounts.
Who You Are
- Extensive experience navigating the cost and billing systems of AWS or GCP. Must have a proven track record of diving into CURs or GCP Billing Reports to drive resource optimization and financial accountability.
- Must be knowledgeable in the area of FinOps and able to put its principles into practice.
- Must be able to write code with a proven ability to develop internal tools and automation to manage cloud resources programmatically. While Python is our primary language, we value a strong command of any modern language used for cloud automation and API integration.
- Must be proficient in SQL and able to dig deeply into cost/usage reports, as well as other cost-relevant activity logs.
- Experience with Terraform and cloud-based Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) is desirable.
- Familiarity with cost aspects of Databricks and Snowflake is desirable.
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255,000 zł - 320,000 zł a year
Samba expects to offer a base salary between 255000 - 320000 PLN per year for roles to be performed in Warsaw actual base salary offered will depend on various factors, including but not limited to, location, experience, and performance. Base salary is just one component of Samba TV’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include bonuses, short-term incentives, and long-term incentives. In addition, Samba provides health insurance, wellness offerings, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO), and other employee benefits.
Samba is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We strive to empower connection with one another, reflect the communities we serve, and tackle meaningful projects that make a real impact.
Samba may collect personal information directly from you, as a job applicant, Samba may also receive personal information from third parties, for example, in connection with a background, employment or reference check, in accordance with the applicable law. For further details, please see Samba's Applicant Privacy Policy. For residents of the EU , Samba Inc. is the data controller.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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