Cost Analytics Lead

Responsibilities

• Build, enhance, and maintain dashboards that track cloud cost, usage, capacity, utilization, and infrastructure efficiency across Baseten’s fleet.
• Ingest, clean, and model billing and usage data from multiple cloud and infrastructure providers, including sources such as cost and usage reports, provider APIs, invoices, and internal infrastructure systems.
• Create canonical data models for capacity and usage across a variety of dimensions and time grains.
• Partner with Infrastructure Engineering and Finance to define core metrics for cloud spend, committed capacity utilization, cost allocation, unit economics, and infrastructure efficiency.
• Support forecasting and planning workflows by modeling historical usage, capacity trends, and infrastructure demands.
• Develop alerting for anomalies in billing, tagging, utilization, and capacity data.
• Ensure data reliability through testing, documentation, version control, and clear ownership across the analytics stack.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in analytics, BI, infrastructure analytics, cloud cost management, or a related role.
• Strong SQL skills, including experience writing complex transformations across disparate datasets.
• Experience building clean, reusable data models and semantic layers in dbt.
• Working knowledge of concepts like AWS Cost and Usage Reports, Google Cloud Billing Export, committed use discounts, savings plans, reservations, usage-based pricing, credits, and cloud cost allocation.
• Experience integrating raw data from APIs, cloud exports, vendor invoices, billing systems, or observability platforms with Python/SQL.
• Familiarity with the FOCUS standard or other cloud cost data normalization frameworks.
• Experience building dashboards and self-serve analytics in BI tools such as Sigma and Hex.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex infrastructure and cost concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.