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As a Staff SRE, you'll apply SRE principles (measurement, observability, automation and accountability) to FinOps and cost optimization, treating cost the way SREs treat reliability. That means building the financial models behind our cost decisions: forecasting spend, modeling unit economics and COGS, and planning our commitment strategy. Working as the quantitative partner to Engineering, Finance (FP&A) and executive leadership, you'll turn those models into decisions. \nThis is a quantitative role. We're looking for someone who is genuinely comfortable with math, especially financial and statistical modeling. You will build forecasts, sensitivity analyses, and optimization models. You will draw insights from models and datasets, and must be able to defend the assumptions behind them when presenting to stakeholders.\nWhat you will do:\nFinOps & Financial modeling\nBuild financial models for cloud and AI cost, including unit economics, COGS, and spend forecasts with scenario and sensitivity analysis.\nShape our commitment strategy (CSP, RI, EDP) by modeling the tradeoff between savings and utilization risk.\nDesign cost allocation and attribution methods so every dollar of cloud and AI spend maps to the team and product that drives it.\nOwn and evolve our cost regression program and tooling, detecting, investigating and driving resolution of cost increases, so engineering teams have visibility into their spend and are accountable for it.\nHelp shape and drive the cost optimization roadmap, leading cost-saving initiatives across teams and acting as the bridge between engineering, finance and executive leadership.\nDrive continuous improvement and operational excellence for our FinOps pipelines and tools.\nProvide mentoring and guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.\nApplying SRE principles to FinOps\nRun FinOps tooling and cost data pipelines like production services, with monitoring, alerting, data-quality checks and automation.\nBring SRE practices to cost management: budgets and thresholds modeled on error budgets, actionable cost alerting, and blameless reviews of significant cost regressions.\nQuantify cost-reliability tradeoffs, such as the cost of redundancy vs. the cost of downtime, so optimization decisions don't put customer experience at risk.\nAutomate manual cost reporting and analysis work.\nContribute cost insights to the weekly LiveSite operational review.\nWhat you already have\nBachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Sciences, Engineering, Finance or related field (Ph.D. is a plus)\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights\nTrack record of taking ownership and influencing results, working across internal and external organizations, including engineering, finance and marketing. \nExcellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders \n Technical skills: \n7+ years of professional experience in data or software engineering roles\n2+ years of experience with cloud financial management or FinOps framework\nDemonstrative ability to build and operate data pipelines with complex sources\nExperience partnering with Finance/FP&A on budgeting, forecasting or gross-margin analysis.\nOperational expertise in high scale, reliable 24/7, multi-tenant global SaaS\nStrong coding and debugging skills \nExperience with Scala, Java, Golang, or Python (Scala experience highly beneficial).\nAbout Us:\nSumo Logic, Inc. empowers the people who power modern, digital business. Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications through its Sumo Logic SaaS Analytics Log Platform, which helps practitioners and developers ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. Customers worldwide rely on Sumo Logic to get powerful real-time analytics and insights across observability and security solutions for their cloud-native applications. 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