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With 465 billion automated optimizations per second, the AI-powered StackAdapt Marketing Platform seamlessly connects brand and performance marketing to drive measurable results across the entire customer journey. The most forward-thinking marketers choose StackAdapt to orchestrate high-impact campaigns across programmatic advertising and marketing channels.\nWe are looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cost Optimization to help shape how we manage, forecast, and optimize infrastructure investments across our engineering organization.\nThis is a high-impact individual contributor role at the intersection of infrastructure engineering, product, and finance. You'll work to understand where infrastructure costs originate, how they scale with product usage, and how engineering decisions influence broader business outcomes.\nYou'll build the systems, tooling, and data models needed to make infrastructure spending more transparent, predictable, and actionable. Beyond identifying opportunities for cost optimization, you'll help establish the forecasting models, unit economics, and infrastructure cost insights that inform capacity planning, product pricing, and long-term business decisions.\nWe're looking for someone with a strong infrastructure engineering background who has experience thinking beyond the technology itself. You understand how infrastructure supports products, how costs scale, and how to translate technical insights into meaningful business decisions.\nWhat You’ll Do\nBuild and evolve internal tooling, dashboards, and reporting systems to improve visibility into infrastructure and engineering-related costs.\n\nAnalyze and optimize cloud infrastructure and engineering-owned vendor spending, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and scalability.\n\nDevelop cost attribution and unit-cost models that connect infrastructure consumption to services, products, and business usage.\n\nPartner with product and engineering teams to understand how infrastructure architecture, usage patterns, and technical decisions impact costs and product economics.\n\nCollaborate with finance to develop infrastructure cost forecasts, financial models, and reliable data inputs that support budgeting and long-term planning.\n\nProvide infrastructure cost insights that help inform product pricing decisions and broader business strategy.\n\nEstablish meaningful infrastructure cost KPIs, reporting processes, and governance practices to improve financial accountability.\n\nSupport infrastructure vendor management, including cost analysis, utilization, contract renewals, and optimization opportunities.\n\nDrive cost-conscious engineering practices across teams while balancing performance, reliability, scalability, and business needs.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nStrong background in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering, with experience owning or influencing infrastructure strategy and technical decisions.\n\nDeep understanding of AWS or comparable cloud environments, including infrastructure architecture, resource utilization, and cost drivers.\n\nExperience analyzing infrastructure costs, identifying optimization opportunities, and understanding the financial implications of technical decisions.\n\nUnderstanding of how infrastructure consumption translates into unit costs, product economics, and broader business outcomes.\n\nExperience working cross-functionally with engineering, product, finance, or business stakeholders.\n\nExposure to infrastructure budgeting, forecasting, cost modeling, or capacity planning.\n\nStrong analytical skills and experience building tools, dashboards, or data models to support technical and business decisions.\n\nAbility to take ownership of complex initiatives, influence stakeholders, and communicate effectively across technical and nontechnical audiences.\n\nNice to Have\nExperience working at a growing technology company where you've owned responsibilities spanning infrastructure, product, and business operations.\n\nExperience developing infrastructure unit economics or contributing to product pricing decisions.\n\nFamiliarity with FinOps principles, cloud cost management, or infrastructure financial planning.\n\nExperience with showback, chargeback, or cost attribution frameworks.\n\nExperience with CloudZero, Apptio, CloudHealth, or similar cost management platforms.\n\nExperience managing engineering vendors, infrastructure partnerships, or procurement processes.\n\nPrevious experience building a new engineering capability, internal platform, or operational process from the ground up.\n\nThe compensation range listed for this role reflects the expected base salary for candidates located in the posting country based on a global rate. It is informed by market data and the approved budget for this position. StackAdapt maintains different compensation ranges for roles across other countries and regions, and final offers will be aligned to the candidate’s current location. We do not ask candidates about current or prior salary history, and we will not use such information, if volunteered, in setting an offer.\nThis range represents base salary only. Depending on the role, candidates may also be eligible for additional compensation such as annual bonuses, commissions, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits package.\nFactors Influencing Final Compensation:\nThe final compensation offer will be determined by a variety of factors, which may include, but are not limited to: the candidate's specific experience, technical skills, knowledge, abilities, and relevant education, licensure, and certifications.\nOther business factors, such as organizational needs and budget alignment, may also be considered in the final offer.\nCanada Base Salary Band\n$196,000—$269,500 CAD\nUSA Base Salary Band\n$182,400—$250,800 USD\nStackAdapter's Enjoy:\nHighly competitive salary\nRetirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally\nCompetitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off!\nAccess to a comprehensive mental health care program\nHealth benefits from day one of employment\nWork from home reimbursements\nOptional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto\nRobust training and onboarding program\nCoverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc)\nAccess to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning\nAn awesome parental leave program\nA friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture\nOur social and team events!\nPlease note: Benefits and perks may vary depending on your country of employment and the nature of your engagement. In locations where StackAdapt does not have a legal entity, employment and benefits are administered in accordance with local regulations and partner policies.\nStackAdapt is a diverse and inclusive team of collaborative, hardworking individuals trying to make a dent in the universe. No matter who you are, where you are from, who you love, follow in faith, disability, superpower status, ethnicity, or the gender you identify with (if you’re comfortable, let us know your pronouns), you are welcome at StackAdapt. \nStackAdapt is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If you require an accommodation, please let us know.\nWe use artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the resume reviews of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.\nAbout StackAdapt\nWe've been recognized for our diverse and supportive workplace, high performing campaigns, award-winning customer service, and innovation. 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