Platform Engineer, FinOps

Position Summary: Natera is seeking a Platform Engineer, FinOps to support the scaling of our financial operations across AWS and strategic SaaS platforms. This role is designed for a mid-level engineer who bridges the gap between cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and financial accountability.

You will be a key contributor to our "AI-first" engineering culture, not only maintaining traditional cost-visibility tools but also helping to build and maintain an AI-native FinOps ecosystem. You will work to move beyond manual reporting toward autonomous FinOps, leveraging agentic workflows to automate cost attribution and anomaly detection.

• Data Pipelines: Maintain and evolve scalable cost ingestion pipelines, specifically focused on the AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR).

• AI Integration: Help embed AI-driven intelligence into the platform to enable predictive scaling and automated cost-saving recommendations.

• Tooling & CI/CD: Leverage GitLab CI/CD pipelines to version, deploy, and automate FinOps governance workflows.

• Infrastructure as Code: Manage FinOps-related infrastructure using Terraform to ensure controlled development and release practices.

• SaaS Cost Integration: Support ingestion and normalization of cost and usage data from SaaS platforms using APIs and integrations.

• Dashboarding: Build and maintain advanced Amazon QuickSight dashboards, utilizing dataset modeling and row-level security to provide clear insights to engineering teams.

• Anomaly Detection: Implement and operationalize AI-driven cost alerts to improve signal-to-noise ratios and accelerate root cause analysis.

• FinOps as a Product: Support the integration of natural language interfaces into our Internal Developer Portal (IDP), allowing engineers to interact with cost data through conversational AI.

• Data Reliability: Implement monitoring and data quality checks to ensure cost data accuracy and completeness.

• Commitment Strategy: Support the modeling and tracking of Savings Plans and Reserved Instances to ensure high coverage and utilization.

• Accountability: Enforce tagging standards and cost allocation models to ensure financial discipline keeps pace with technical innovation.

• Agentic Workflows: Assist in developing "day two" operational tools that use agentic reasoning to solve complex cost attribution challenges.

• Cloud Expertise: 4+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering (AWS strongly preferred) with a strong understanding of cloud cost drivers.

• FinOps Mindset: Proven experience delivering measurable cost optimization or cloud governance impact.

• Programming Skills: Proficiency in Python for building production-grade automation and interacting with AWS SDKs and APIs.

• AI/ML Logic: Experience applying AI techniques (such as summarization or RAG) to operational workflows. You understand how to make LLMs "useful" for data tasks.

• Data Proficiency: Strong SQL skills and experience working with large-scale datasets; experience with Snowflake or NoSQL databases and building ELT pipelines is a plus.

• DevOps Toolkit: Hands-on experience with Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and Kubernetes (EKS).

At Natera, we don't just analyze costs, we build intelligent systems that make cost intelligence automatic. As a Platform Engineer, FinOps, you will be at the forefront of the shift toward AI-native infrastructure, ensuring that our growth remains sustainable through cutting-edge automation and intelligent orchestration.