Senior FinOps Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><h3>Our Purpose<strong><br></strong></h3> <p>At SentinelOne, we are driven by a clear purpose: to give the advantage to those who secure our future. As AI reshapes how organizations build, operate, and innovate, the responsibility to protect them becomes more critical than ever. When you join SentinelOne, your work helps protect global enterprises, critical infrastructure, and the technologies shaping tomorrow. If you are motivated by meaningful challenges and want your impact to be real, measurable, and global, you will find purpose here.</p> <h3>About Us<strong><br></strong></h3> <p>SentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity. Our AI-native platform unifies protection across endpoint, cloud, identity, data, and AI systems to deliver autonomous detection and response with clarity and speed. By combining real-time analytics, intelligent automation, and a unified data foundation, we reduce noise, simplify complexity, and empower security teams to focus on what truly matters.</p> <p>Our teams are builders, problem-solvers, and innovators committed to shaping the future of security. If you are excited to solve hard problems alongside talented, mission-driven people, we invite you to help us build a safer future for humanity.</p> <h3><strong>What Are We Looking For?</strong></h3> <p>We’re looking for people who are relentlessly curious and committed to continuous learning. AI is reshaping every function across our business, and we enable every team member, regardless of role or level, to build fluency in AI tools and concepts. Those who thrive here actively seek out new solutions, experiment thoughtfully, and apply what they learn to drive better, faster, smarter outcomes.</p></div><p>As a Senior FinOps Engineer, you will be tasked with being a key architect of our financial sustainability at SentinelOne. You won't just track spend, you will build the frameworks that transform complex cloud and usage data into clear, actionable strategies for the business. Joining our global FinOps team, you will act as the bridge between Product Engineering, Finance, and Leadership, ensuring our hyper-growth is matched by world-class unit economics and cloud efficiency.</p> <h3 class="p-rich_text_section">What will you do?</h3> <p>Primary responsibilities include<strong>: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Advanced Analytics &amp; Insights: Architect and maintain sophisticated data models that merge cloud billing data with customer usage metrics to drive deep-dive trend analysis and anomaly detection.</li> <li>AI &amp; ML Economics: Establish governance and unit-economic tracking for AI-related spend, including GPU utilization, LLM token consumption, and model training costs to ensure high ROI on AI initiatives.</li> <li>Strategic Allocation: Design and govern complex cost-allocation frameworks (including Kubernetes and shared services) to ensure 100% accountability across product lines and engineering pods.</li> <li>Cost Tracking &amp; Accountability: Track and maintain critical cloud cost, identify increases and improve cost accountability across org.</li> <li>Optimization &amp; Commitment Management: Lead the strategy for Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and CUDs across a multi-cloud environment. Proactively identify architectural rightsizing opportunities.</li> <li>Forecasting &amp; Capacity Planning: Build predictive models for cloud spend that account for customer acquisition rates, regional expansion, and product roadmap changes to safeguard company margins.</li> <li>Cost Accountability: Improve cost accountability and mindset across org&nbsp;</li> <li>Stakeholder Influence: Present quarterly business reviews (QBRs) to senior stakeholders, translating technical cloud complexities into clear financial impact.</li> <li>Capitalization (CapEx) Reporting: Support the engineering capitalization process by correlating labor effort with project delivery data for financial compliance.</li> </ul> <h3 class="p-rich_text_section">What experience or knowledge should you bring?</h3> <p>Ideal candidates will have:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Experience: 5+ years in a dedicated FinOps or Cloud Cost Management role within a large-scale, multi-cloud environment (AWS &amp; GCP preferred).</li> <li>Data: Expert-level SQL and proficiency in Python for data manipulation. You should be comfortable moving beyond basic reports into data transformation and enrichment.</li> <li>Visualization: Proven track record of building high-impact BI dashboards (e.g., Tableau, Looker, or Grafana) that tell a story, not just display numbers.</li> <li>Cloud Architecture: Deep technical understanding of cloud services (Compute, Storage, Networking, and BigQuery/Snowflake) and how their architectural choices impact the bottom line.</li> <li>Financial Literacy: Solid understanding of accounting principles.</li> <li>Education: B.Sc. in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related field.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Why SentinelOne?</strong></h3> <p>AI is redefining how the world operates and rewriting the rules of security in real time, and SentinelOne was built for this moment. From day one, we architected an AI-native platform designed to operate at machine speed, not as an add-on to legacy systems but as the foundation itself. If you want to build where innovation and impact move together, this is that place.</p> <p>We invest in our Sentinels with comprehensive, competitive benefits designed to support you and your family:</p> <p><strong>Equity &amp; Rewards</strong></p> <ul> <li>Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)</li> <li>Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Time Off &amp; Wellbeing</strong></p> <ul> <li>Competitive leave benefits</li> <li>Gender-neutral parental leave</li> <li>Employee Assistant Program</li> <li>Workout sessions and a Wellness App</li> </ul> <p><strong>Insurance &amp; Financial Security</strong></p> <ul> <li>Medical and insurance benefits</li> <li>Pension</li> <li>Employee Assistance Program (EAP)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Work Perks &amp; Flexibility</strong></p> <ul> <li>Global home office allowance</li> <li>Mobile phone reimbursement</li> <li>Study Fund&nbsp;</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">SentinelOne is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">SentinelOne participates in the E-Verify Program for all U.S. based roles.&nbsp;</span></p></div>