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#126292 - Senior FinOps Data Engineer

Lifted, an Upwork Company™
Remote (Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile) Posted Sep 30, 2026
Full-timeRemote

About this role

Job 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.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain reliable end-to-end ELT and ETL pipelines in cloud environments.

  • Develop tooling and datasets for telemetry-driven cost attribution and performance-informed financial modeling.

  • Build and maintain pipelines and automation that provide cloud cost transparency, identify optimization opportunities, and support committed-use discount modeling and management.

  • Ingest and reconcile large-scale billing, usage, telemetry, and performance data from cloud platforms, APIs, and other sources.

  • Design and mature data models, schemas, and ingestion frameworks that support reliable downstream analysis and reporting.

  • Improve the maintainability, scalability, observability, and reliability of production data workflows.

  • Implement comprehensive data auditing, validation, reconciliation, and end-to-end quality controls.

  • Build and maintain REST API integrations and infrastructure automation.

  • Support CI/CD development processes and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

  • Troubleshoot production pipeline failures, data inconsistencies, and performance issues.

  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Finance stakeholders to translate technical data into clear, actionable insights.

Qualifications

  • Must-Have Skills

    • 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.
  • Nice-to-Have Skills

    • 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.

Additional Information

Required Tools and Platforms

  • SQL

  • Python

  • Spark

  • Scala

  • AWS Glue

  • Amazon Aurora

  • Amazon Athena

  • GCP

  • Snowflake

  • dbt, Airflow, and/or Dagster

  • Terraform

  • CI/CD tooling

  • Git or another version-control platform

  • REST APIs

Location, Schedule, and Engagement

  • 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.

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