Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cost Optimization

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🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $182.4k - $250.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👷 Infrastructure Engineer

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

💰 $235M Private Equity Round - StackAdapt on 2025-02

Marketing • SaaS • Media

StackAdapt is an AI-powered programmatic marketing platform and demand-side platform (DSP) that helps advertisers, agencies, and brands plan, execute, and optimize multi-channel digital advertising campaigns. The platform uses machine learning and first‑party data to provide advanced audience targeting, contextual and location-based targeting, creative optimization, and real-time campaign analytics across channels like connected TV, display, native, video, audio, in-game, digital out-of-home, and email. StackAdapt offers enterprise-grade solutions, client services, an API, and tools for creatives and reporting to support full-funnel advertising at scale.

📋 Description

• Build and evolve internal tooling, dashboards, and reporting systems to improve visibility into infrastructure and engineering-related costs • Analyze and optimize cloud infrastructure and engineering-owned vendor spending, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and scalability • Develop cost attribution and unit-cost models that connect infrastructure consumption to services, products, and business usage • Partner with product and engineering teams to understand how infrastructure architecture, usage patterns, and technical decisions impact costs and product economics • Collaborate with finance to develop infrastructure cost forecasts, financial models, and reliable data inputs that support budgeting and long-term planning • Provide infrastructure cost insights that help inform product pricing decisions and broader business strategy • Establish meaningful infrastructure cost KPIs, reporting processes, and governance practices to improve financial accountability • Support infrastructure vendor management, including cost analysis, utilization, contract renewals, and optimization opportunities • Drive cost-conscious engineering practices across teams while balancing performance, reliability, scalability, and business needs

🎯 Requirements

• Strong background in infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering, with experience owning or influencing infrastructure strategy and technical decisions • Deep understanding of AWS or comparable cloud environments, including infrastructure architecture, resource utilization, and cost drivers • Experience analyzing infrastructure costs, identifying optimization opportunities, and understanding the financial implications of technical decisions • Understanding of how infrastructure consumption translates into unit costs, product economics, and broader business outcomes • Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product, finance, or business stakeholders • Exposure to infrastructure budgeting, forecasting, cost modeling, or capacity planning • Strong analytical skills and experience building tools, dashboards, or data models to support technical and business decisions • Ability to take ownership of complex initiatives, influence stakeholders, and communicate effectively across technical and nontechnical audiences

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive salary • Retirement/ 401K/ Pension Savings globally • Competitive Paid time off packages including birthday's off! • Access to a comprehensive mental health care program • Health benefits from day one of employment • Work from home reimbursements • Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office and hubs in London and Toronto • Robust training and onboarding program • Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, books etc) • Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning • An awesome parental leave program • A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture • Our social and team events!

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