About the Role
This role manages and optimizes cloud expenses within the Engineering organization, focusing on AWS infrastructure, Snowflake data platforms, and OpenAI/Anthropic API utilization. The analyst tracks consumption data, creates financial models, and collaborates with engineering teams to build cost-efficient systems.
Responsibilities
- Build and manage cost models tracking spend across OpenAI and Anthropic, breaking down costs by application, prompt/response tokens, and model types.
- Audit Snowflake utilization to optimize virtual warehouse sizing, auto-suspend settings, and data storage lifecycles.
- Track utilization trends to assist leadership in evaluating capacity purchases and pricing models for specialized vendors.
- Monitor AWS consumption and propose optimization strategies, including infrastructure rightsizing and managing Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
- Build real-time alerting systems to identify spending spikes.
- Develop and implement cloud governance guidelines and tagging policies to ensure accurate expense allocation across engineering teams.
- Create and maintain financial reports, variance analyses, and dashboards using QuickSight to communicate expense trends to stakeholders.
- Develop data-driven forecasts and annual budgets for cloud and AI expenses based on engineering product roadmaps.
- Coordinate with engineering, data, and finance teams to negotiate vendor pricing and align technical operations with budget guidelines.
Requirements
- A minimum of 6–7 years of professional experience in cloud financial management, technology systems analysis, or engineering operations.
- Understanding of Snowflake credit structures and LLM pricing metrics (input/output tokens, context windows).
- Knowledge of core AWS services, pricing models, and native cost management tools.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python to extract and manipulate raw cloud billing data and API transaction logs.
- Experience building technical dashboards in QuickSight or equivalent BI utilities.
- Experience applying FinOps principles to consumption-based cloud and software services.
- Competency in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and ROI calculation.
- Ability to translate complex cloud billing data into clear, actionable technical tasks for software and data engineers.
- Analytical skills focused on solving optimization problems and reducing waste through automated solutions.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
- DISCO is not currently sponsoring visas, including, but not limited to, H-1B, TN, or EAD, and we are not accepting visa transfers.
Skills
- AWS Infrastructure
- Data Analysis
- Data Visualization
- FinOps Practices
- Financial Modeling
- Technical Communication
- Quantitative Analysis
- SQL
- Python
- QuickSight
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 6-7 years
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary plus RSUs
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Flexible PTO
About the Company
- DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and governments.
- Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters.
- At DISCO, we believe AI is a core enabler of how work gets done.
- All employees are expected to proactively adopt and responsibly use AI tools to drive efficiency, improve outcomes, and continuously evolve how they operate in their role.
- Are you ready to help us fulfill our mission to use technology to strengthen the rule of law? Join us!
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
