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Infracost hires senior dev advocate to embed cloud cost visibility

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Infracost the YC‑backed startup is looking for a senior developer advocate to push its cloud‑cost‑aware tooling into mainstream engineering workflows. The role targets US and CA techies, offering a $180K‑$200K salary and full remote flexibility. By embedding cost insight in IDEs and CI pipelines, Infracost aims to prevent surprise bill spikes for teams everywhere daily.

The company estimates public cloud spending will hit $1 trillion this decade, a figure that underscores the urgency of early cost visibility. Infracost plugs into Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK, surfacing cost impact directly in pull requests and IDEs. Its 12K‑star GitHub CLI shows strong developer appetite for proactive FinOps among startup teams and large enterprises.

Hiring a developer advocate lets Infracost shape adoption strategies alongside its product engineering squad. Responsibilities include crafting blog posts, demos, and community outreach on GitHub, Slack, and Hacker News. The advocate will transform user feedback into roadmap priorities, ensuring the tool stays aligned with real‑world infrastructure pain points for modern cloud operations teams everywhere daily.

Backed by Sequoia and YC, Infracost already serves Fortune 500 customers and boasts a 10‑year equity window for employees. The new advocate will help the company scale its shift‑FinOps model, drive developer adoption, and keep costs transparent as cloud budgets approach historic highs for engineering teams across the tech industry today and beyond everywhere daily.