Senior FinOps Engineer
Xsolla (USA), Inc., operating under the Xsolla brand, is a global video game commerce and payments company serving game developers, publishers, creators, and payment providers.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Xsolla (USA), Inc.
Xsolla provides merchant-of-record and payment-processing services plus direct-to-consumer commerce, web shops, publishing and distribution tools, cloud gaming, fraud prevention, player engagement, creator monetization, and developer tooling for the video game industry. Its solutions operate across 200+ geographies with 1,000+ payment methods and are actively supported through live products, documentation, customer support, and ongoing hiring.
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About the Role
Xsolla is seeking a highly analytical Senior FinOps Engineer to lead cloud and infrastructure financial management across GCP, AWS, and on-premises environments. The role focuses on cost transparency, optimization, forecasting, governance, automation, and cross-functional partnership with engineering, finance, and product teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps with a focus on cost optimization.
- Hands-on GCP and AWS experience with strong knowledge of cloud pricing and cost management tooling.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes resource allocation, autoscaling, workload placement, and cost attribution.
- Proficiency with GCP Billing exports, BigQuery, AWS CUR, Kubecost, and CloudHealth.
- Strong analytical and data-engineering skills, including dashboards, SQL pipelines, and forecasting models.
- Experience driving cross-functional initiatives and influencing engineering, product, and finance stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills for translating technical concepts into business recommendations.
- Fluent in written and verbal English.
Responsibilities
- Lead cloud cost optimization strategy across GCP, AWS, and on-premises infrastructure.
- Analyze compute, storage, networking, and Kubernetes resource usage to identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Build forecasting models, dashboards, and automated reporting for cost visibility.
- Develop tagging standards, budgeting processes, and governance policies.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Finance, and Product on workload placement and architecture decisions.
- Drive FinOps practices including rightsizing, reservation planning, autoscaling, and multi-cloud efficiency.
- Create tooling, automation, and pipelines for cost monitoring, anomaly detection, and usage attribution.
- Train engineering teams, run FinOps reviews, and communicate insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Stay current with cloud pricing models, vendor offerings, and industry trends.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- PTO
- Personalized career roadmap
- Professional development through training and educational opportunities