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Your work will directly influence how business leaders understand, govern, and optimize cloud spend.\nThis is the most business-logic-intensive engineering role on the team, ideal for someone who thrives on translating financial concepts into scalable, auditable data models.\n\nWhat You’ll Do\nCore Engineering Responsibilities\nYou will design and build the data foundations that power cost transparency and accountability:\nDesign and implement a cost allocation rule engine supporting:\nTag-based attribution\nAccount/subscription-based mappings\nCustom business-defined allocation rules\nBuild amortization models for upfront cloud commitments:\n1-year and 3-year reservations\nPrepaid and committed-use discounts\nImplement shared cost distribution models, including:\nProportional allocation\nEven split\nFixed-coefficient weighting\nCreate attribution logic for untagged costs, leveraging:\nAccount ownership\nUsage heuristics\nBusiness metadata\nDevelop budget vs. actual variance models to support cost governance\nDesign forecasting input models using historical trends and seasonality\nEnsure all models align with accounting principles, including:\nPeriod alignment\nMatching principle\nAccrual and amortization logic\nWhat You Bring\nExperience\n5–7 years of hands-on data engineering experience\nProven experience building chargeback and/or showback systems\nStrong exposure to cloud cost allocation in enterprise environments\nPrior work supporting FinOps, Finance, or Cost Management teams is highly preferred\nTechnical Expertise\nExpert-level SQL (complex joins, window functions, performance tuning)\nStrong dimensional data modeling skills (facts, dimensions, slowly changing dimensions)\nExperience with modern data modeling tools such as:\ndbt\nLookML\nor equivalent frameworks\nDeep understanding of FinOps cost allocation methodologies\nSolid grasp of financial accounting concepts, including:\nAmortization\nAccruals\nBudgeting and variance analysis\nWhat Sets You Apart\nYou think in business rules, not just pipelines\nYou can explain financial models clearly to both engineers and finance stakeholders\nYou build data models that are:\nAuditable\nExplainable\nScalable\nYou’ve worked in environments where cost transparency directly impacts executive decisions\nWhy Join\nWork on high-visibility, mission-critical financial data models\nFully remote U.S.-based role\nCollaborate with senior FinOps, Finance, and Engineering leaders\nOpportunity to shape the foundation of enterprise cloud cost governance\n\n30zGpi4z55","company":"Inabiasoftware","rawCompany":"inabiasoftware","city":"Remote","state":"OR","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-14T11:01:24.815Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1243.01","title":"Data Warehousing Specialists","slug":"data-warehousing-specialists"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1243.00","title":"Database Architects","slug":"database-architects"}],"industries":[{"code":"518210","title":"Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services","slug":"computing-infrastructure-providers-data-processing-web-hosting-and-related-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Cost Allocation Data Engineer","description":"Cost Allocation Data Engineer\nLocation: US Remote\nCompensation: Up to $55/hour - W2\nWork Authorization: U.S. Citizen or Green Card only (no sponsorship available)\nWhy This Role Matters\nThis is not a standard data engineering role.\n\nAs a Cost Allocation Data Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of cloud economics, financial modeling, and data engineering, building the core allocation logic that enables show back and chargeback across complex cloud environments. 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