Senior FinOps Practitioner

Salesforce

. Increase Cost Efficiency: ~$10M+ in savings delivered in the first year on an $XB budget.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $148,500 - $223,900 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSQLTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Increase Cost Efficiency: ~$10M+ in savings delivered in the first year on an $XB budget.
Partner with Service Teams across Salesforce to reduce our cloud footprint, ensuring we are maximizing the return on every dollar spent on public cloud infrastructure.
Systematically identify and eliminate unused, orphaned, or over-provisioned resources.
Champion a culture of cost accountability and educate engineering and product teams on the financial impact of their technical decisions.
Provide accurate, data-driven cloud spend forecasts to finance and engineering leadership to improve predictable budgeting.
Evaluate and recommend commitment-based discount strategies (e.g., Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Committed Use Discounts) to maximize savings.
Own specific savings projects: Identify, quantify, and lead targeted initiatives to reduce cloud expenditure across the organization.
Work directly with VP+ level leaders to establish financial governance and drive actionable cost-saving measures within their specific programs.
Work hands-on with engineering teams to implement cost-efficiency solutions, such as right-sizing compute resources, deleting unattached storage, and upgrading workloads to more efficient instance types.
Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and alerting mechanisms to track cloud usage and spend against budgets.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of professional experience in cloud financial management, FinOps, or a related field
Deep understanding of the pricing models, billing mechanisms, and cost optimization tools of major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure)
Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, or other analytical tools to manipulate and analyze large, complex cloud billing datasets (e.g., CUR data)
Proven ability to communicate effectively across technical (Engineering/Architecture) and non-technical (Finance/Business) teams
Experience managing and driving complex savings projects from discovery through implementation
Experience building intuitive cost dashboards using tools like Tableau, Looker, or native cloud billing consoles
Thorough understanding of the FinOps Foundation lifecycle (Inform, Optimize, Operate) and its core principles
Adept at utilizing Generative AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate the development of cost-optimization scripts.

Benefits

Comp & perks

time off programs
medical, dental, vision
mental health support
paid parental leave
life and disability insurance
401(k)
employee stock purchasing program

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud financial managementFinOpscost optimizationSQLPythondata analysiscost dashboardscloud billingcost-efficiency solutionscloud pricing models

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationleadershipproject managementfinancial governancecost accountabilityeducational skillsanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingcross-functional teamwork