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Cockroach Labs is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager, FinOps to join their R&D Operations team in Bangalore, India. This high-visibility role will define and mature FinOps capabilities, focusing on cloud financial management. You will drive cost transparency, identify savings opportunities, and manage cloud infrastructure spend with discipline by working at the intersection of Engineering, Finance, and Operations.
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We are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager, FinOps to join our Research & Development Operations team, based in Bengaluru, India. This is a high-visibility opportunity to define and mature our FinOps capabilities at Cockroach Labs, building on foundational work already underway across our engineering organization and taking our cloud financial management to a new level of rigor, scale, and competitive advantage. You will sit at the intersection of Engineering, Finance, and Operations, responsible for driving cost transparency, surfacing savings opportunities, and ensuring cloud infrastructure spend is managed with discipline and accountability.
Cockroach Labs operates a significant cloud infrastructure footprint to power CockroachDB Cloud and our internal engineering environments. As we scale, the ability to understand, attribute, and optimize that spend is critical to our financial health and margin profile. This role will own the FinOps program end-to-end: stewarding the tooling that tracks cloud costs, partnering with Engineering and Finance to embed cost accountability across the organization, and building the cost allocation models that feed margin analysis and executive reporting.
R&D Operations plays a crucial role in enabling our organization to exceed customer expectations by shortening feedback loops and accelerating learning. By focusing on coordination and process effectiveness, R&D Operations minimizes friction and allows teams to concentrate on delivering high-quality products and services.
In your first 30 days, you will orient yourself by conducting a thorough review of Cockroach Labs' cloud infrastructure footprint, existing FinOps tooling, and current state of cost attribution and tagging. You will meet with key stakeholders across R&D and Finance to understand how cloud spend is tracked today, where the gaps are, and what decisions are being made without the data they deserve. Working closely with Finance, you will kick off the design of a tagging hierarchy that will allow cloud infrastructure costs to be viewed and rolled up across the dimensions that matter most: by team, product, environment, and customer workload.
By day 60, you will have finalized the tagging taxonomy with Finance sign-off and begun driving adoption and enforcement across Engineering. You will have established yourself as the SME on our FinOps tooling platform, leading the first internal training, handling configuration changes, and becoming the go-to resource for questions from budget owners and team leads. You will also have built and published the first cost optimization backlog, identifying the highest-value efficiency opportunities surfaced by the tool and beginning to execute on the most actionable of them.
By day 90, you will have established yourself as the definitive expert on where Cockroach Labs' cloud spend is occurring, and why. You will have partnered with Finance and budget owners to put budgets in place by category, delivered the first quarterly cloud spend report to leadership, and helped teams build the dashboards and showback views they need to make cost-aware decisions. When anomalies or trends surface, you will be the person who can explain them to an engineer, a finance partner, or an executive, with clarity and confidence.
This role reports to Colin Minihan, Director of R&D Operations, and sits within the R&D Operations organization. You will work in close partnership with Finance and Cloud Engineering, serving as the connective layer between infrastructure cost reality and financial planning and reporting.
Colin is responsible for ensuring that operations within the R&D department are as efficient and impactful as possible. He has built and managed multiple high-performing program management organizations at various companies, often during crucial growth stages. His love of learning and building extends beyond his profession in software, always looking for the next DIY project or outdoor hobby in the Pacific Northwest.
Cockroach Labs is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you need additional accommodations to feel comfortable during your interview process, please email us at accessibility@cockroachlabs.com.
Cockroach Labs has a hybrid work model, with Roachers that are local to one of our offices coming in on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays and working flexibly the rest of the week. While we’ve learned valuable lessons working remotely, nothing can replace the connection, creativity, and fun that occurs when Roachers get together and we are committed to fostering a workplace that encourages collaboration and allows us all to do our best work.
