CA - Canada; US - Culver City, United States
Scopely seeks a highly skilled Lead Cloud FinOps Engineer to lead a world-class FinOps team focused on driving cloud efficiency. This foundational role demands a blend of software engineering, cloud architecture expertise, and FinOps best practices knowledge. The Lead Cloud FinOps Engineer will be responsible for the development of scalable, automated, and intelligent solutions to optimize cloud costs, while promoting efficiency, innovation, and financial accountability across Scopely's global engineering organization.
In this role, the Lead Cloud FinOps Engineer will collaborate with cloud engineering, game, product, and finance teams to design and implement cutting-edge FinOps solutions for all of Scopely's cloud environments.
What you will do
Act as the technical lead for cloud optimization and showback efforts across AWS, GCP, and other SaaS vendors
Design, build, and maintain automation and tooling (including LLM-powered solutions) to improve cloud cost visibility, anomaly detection, allocation, forecasting, and reporting
Collaborate closely with engineering teams to align cloud architecture decisions with cost-efficiency, performance, and scalability goals
Lead architectural reviews and design consultations to uncover cost-saving opportunities without compromising reliability or developer velocity
Define and implement FinOps governance policies, tagging strategies, and standards to support FinOps adoption
Evaluate and test third-party FinOps platforms through vendor reviews, POCs, and pilot program
Stay current on FinOps best practices, AI/ML advances, and emerging tools —and bring practical innovation into Scopely’s cloud financial strategy
What we are looking for
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
5+ years in cloud architecture, SRE, or platform engineering roles with hands-on experience across AWS, GCP, or Azure
3+ years of direct FinOps experience — including cost modeling, usage optimization, SP/RI strategy, tagging hygiene, and reporting
Proficient in at least one modern programming language (Python, Go, or TypeScript preferred); experience building internal tooling or automation pipelines
Experience designing or applying LLM/AI-based solutions to practical use cases
Strong collaboration and communication skills — able to engage across engineering, finance, and leadership
For candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA, the annual salary range is provided below. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for equity, bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare benefits, retirement benefits, pet insurance, paid holidays, paid Scopely free days, and unlimited paid time off. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA Annual Salary Range
$147,000 - $190,000 USD
About Us
Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences such as "MONOPOLY GO!," “Star Trek Fleet Command,” “Stumble Guys,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” and “Yahtzee With Buddies,” among others.
Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer experience across multiple platforms--from mobile, web, PC and beyond.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the games industry.
Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years.
Scopely has global operations in more than a dozen markets across Asia, EMEA, and North America, and is home to many internal game development teams, referred to as Scopely Studios, with additional game studio partners across four continents.
Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group in July 2023 for $4.9 billion, and is now an independent subsidiary of Savvy.
Notice to candidates: Scopely, Inc and its affiliates will never request payment or ask for financial information as a condition for applying to a position or receiving an offer of employment. All official Scopely, Inc. recruiters only use email domains that end with @scopely.com.
Our official website iswww.scopely.com. Please only apply to positions posted on our official website and ensure the recruiter only communicates via the official email domain.
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