About Costory:

• We’re building the FinOps Assistant we wish we had as large cloud clients. After managing multi-million dollar budgets across GCP, AWS, and Datadog, we know how painful cloud cost management can be. FinOps often falls on senior engineers, forced to manually monitor costs and investigate spikes with little context.
• We believe FinOps and engineering teams shouldn’t waste time digging through billing consoles and dashboards. LLMs alone won’t solve anomaly detection or cost allocation—the real challenge is adding context to messy billing data. That’s why we’re building an agent that correlates costs with technical and product events, explains changes, and surfaces insights directly where teams work, so they can focus on optimization.
• Long-term, our vision is to shift FinOps left, just like SecOps. Engineers should understand cost impact as they build, not after the fact. Costory becomes their co-pilot—helping them make smarter trade-offs between performance, reliability, and cost early in the development cycle.

Your Mission:

As a founding member, you won't just be executing a roadmap; you will be drawing it. You will sit at the intersection of engineering, customer discovery, and product strategy. This is a path for someone who eventually wants to transition into a Product role as we scale.

What You’ll Do

• Bridge the Gap: Translate complex cloud infrastructure data (GCP, AWS, Azure) into an intuitive product experience that "just works" for engineers.
• Customer Discovery: Conduct calls with users, identify their deepest pain points, and turn those insights into shipped features.
• Customer Centric: understand the customer needs and help the team shape the roadmap.
• Shape the Vision: Influence the long-term roadmap. You’ll decide which product trade-offs we make to deliver the most value to our users.
• Be the Voice of the Engineer: Since you've managed cloud infra before, you'll ensure our product stays "dev-centric." You'll build the integrations (Slack, Teams, MCP) that bring FinOps to where engineers actually work.

Your Toolkit (Our Tech Stack)

• Frontend: React, Mantine UI, TanStack Query (React Query).
• Backend: Node.js (Express), Prisma ORM.
• Database/Data: PostgreSQL, BigQuery.
• Cloud: Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Analytics: PostHog

Your Profile

• Cloud/DevOps DNA: You have professional experience managing cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/ Azure) even better working as a designated finops. You know what a NAT Gateway cost spike feels like.