Platform Engineer, FinOps

Natera

Platform Engineer developing FinOps solutions for Natera's AI-native infrastructure. Bridging cloud engineering and financial accountability to support growing financial operations.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $105,700 - $132,100 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudKubernetesNoSQLPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Maintain and evolve scalable cost ingestion pipelines, specifically focused on the AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR).
Help embed AI-driven intelligence into the platform to enable predictive scaling and automated cost-saving recommendations.
Leverage GitLab CI/CD pipelines to version, deploy, and automate FinOps governance workflows.
Manage FinOps-related infrastructure using Terraform to ensure controlled development and release practices.
Support ingestion and normalization of cost and usage data from SaaS platforms using APIs and integrations.
Build and maintain advanced Amazon QuickSight dashboards, utilizing dataset modeling and row-level security to provide clear insights to engineering teams.
Implement and operationalize AI-driven cost alerts.
Integrate natural language interfaces into our Internal Developer Portal (IDP).
Implement monitoring and data quality checks to ensure cost data accuracy and completeness.
Support the modeling and tracking of Savings Plans and Reserved Instances to ensure high coverage and utilization.
Enforce tagging standards and cost allocation models to ensure financial discipline keeps pace with technical innovation.
Assist in developing "day two" operational tools that use agentic reasoning to solve complex cost attribution challenges.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering (AWS strongly preferred).
Proven experience delivering measurable cost optimization or cloud governance impact.
Proficiency in Python for building production-grade automation and interacting with AWS SDKs and APIs.
Experience applying AI techniques (such as summarization or RAG) to operational workflows.
Strong SQL skills and experience working with large-scale datasets; experience with Snowflake or NoSQL databases and building ELT pipelines is a plus.
Hands-on experience with Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and Kubernetes (EKS).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents.
Free testing for employees and their immediate families.
Fertility care benefits.
Pregnancy and baby bonding leave.
401k benefits.
Commuter benefits.
Generous employee referral program!

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWS Cost and Usage ReportAI-driven intelligenceGitLab CI/CDTerraformAPIsAmazon QuickSightPythonSQLSnowflakeKubernetes

Soft Skills

cost optimizationcloud governancedata quality checksfinancial disciplineproblem-solving