FinOps Data Analyst

About Skyway

We are developing a SaaS product that simplifies financial planning and analysis of cloud billing data for large enterprises with complex cloud spending requirements. We're looking for a data analyst to become our expert in cloud billing data accuracy, diving deep into complex datasets to validate and ensure the integrity of our data processing systems.

This is a unique learning opportunity where you'll develop deep expertise in cloud billing – which informs millions (and up) dollars of decisions. You'll work with large datasets (tables with hundreds of columns and hundreds of millions of rows) and become the person who helps decide what comprehensive cloud billing data looks like.

What You'll Do

• Write complex SQL queries to validate data accuracy across our processing pipelines

• Investigate and fix data quality issues in our SQL processing systems

• Develop expertise in cloud billing data, particularly AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR)—famously inconsistent and counter-intuitive data that requires deep understanding

• Work with ClickHouse, Parquet files, and S3 to analyze and validate large-scale datasets

• Collaborate with engineering to identify and resolve data pipeline issues

• Build monitoring queries and data quality checks using Airflow

• Document data patterns, edge cases, and validation procedures

About You

• Intermediate to advanced SQL proficiency—you're comfortable with CTEs, window functions, complex joins, and performance considerations

• If your idea of SQL is "SELECT * and piping it into pandas for analysis," this won't be a good fit

• Some Python experience (helpful but not required to be expert-level)

• Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail—you enjoy digging into data inconsistencies

• Ability to deliver results in hours instead of days

• Comfortable learning complex technical domains from scratch

• Background from bootcamps, self-taught experience, or academic projects welcome

• Interest in industrial engineering, supply chains, or other big systems is a plus

Nice-to-have

• Experience with ClickHouse, Parquet, or columnar databases

• Familiarity with AWS services and billing concepts

• Previous experience working with large-scale datasets

Why This Role is Special

This is a learning opportunity for the specialized domain of cloud financial data: it’s more abstract than the typical data in tech and characterizes the systems underneath. You'll work directly with our head of engineering and have the chance to grow your career toward engineering roles or become a domain expert in cloud cost management.

Our Tech Stack

• AWS

• Python + Flask

• React + TypeScript

• PostgreSQL

• ClickHouse

• Airflow

About Us

We are a small and growing team (less than 10 people!), which means you get the opportunity to be on the ground floor of building the product and company. Our founders are the founders of The Duckbill Group, who bring their wealth of domain expertise and deep industry and customer connections in cloud cost management to the product. Our customers are among the biggest cloud spenders in the world, which means the scale and complexity of the data challenges we solve are truly at the cutting edge. We're currently in a semi-stealth mode while we're focusing on building the initial product.

This is an in-office role

We work together in the office in San Francisco three days per week, so you must be located in the SF Bay Area and willing to work in the office on a regular basis.