Platform Engineer, FinOps at Natera

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. What You’ll Do Engineer the FinOps Platform • 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. Drive Visibility & Autonomous Analytics • 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. Optimization & Governance • 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. What You Bring • 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). Why This Role Matters 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. The pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.Remote USA$105,700—$132,100 USDOUR OPPORTUNITY Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives. The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management. WHAT WE OFFER Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program! For more information, visit www.natera.com. Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws. If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. Link: [Upgrade to PRO to see link] Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @natera.com email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. 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