Staff Engineer, AWS Cloud Cost & Capacity Optimization

United States Digital Space LLC; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

401(k) matching

Health insurance

Paid time off

Catered meals

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Capacity arm, design cost attribution platforms, and build automation for production infrastructure at scale.

You will partner with Data Science, Infrastructure, Finance, and product engineering to translate cloud spend insights into accountable business outcomes, forecast demand, and drive cost‑efficient architecture with guardrails and rollback capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience in data engineering and large-scale data processing.
• Familiarity with cloud spend analytics and cost optimization.
• Ability to communicate complex cost insights to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead capacity planning and demand forecasting for a latency-sensitive production environment.
• Design scalable cost attribution and chargeback systems across teams.
• Architect automated anomaly detection and governance tooling for cost control.
• Collaborate with Data Science to develop forecasting models and unit economics frameworks.
• Drive AWS contracts and pricing strategy with partners to optimize infrastructure spend.
• Shape measurement and governance of AI/ML infra spend and apply automation to cost ops.

Skills

Data engineering

Spark

Airflow

Kubernetes

Cloud cost awareness

Communication

Finance liaison

Tools

Kubernetes

Billing data analysis

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Capacity arm, design cost attribution platforms, and build automation for production infrastructure at scale.

You will partner with Data Science, Infrastructure, Finance, and product engineering to translate cloud spend insights into accountable business outcomes, forecast demand, and drive cost‑efficient architecture with guardrails and rollback capabilities.