DevTools · Data Platforms · 200–1000 · North America #b017_12

Context

We provide an open-source backend platform built on a relational database, used by a very large number of developers and startups.

Industry

DevTools & Software · Data Platforms

Size

200–1000 employees

Region

North America

Tools budget

$5K–20K per month

Needs

Cloud cost optimization. Our cloud bill grows with a huge free and paid user base and we need cost tied back to features.

Today: a dedicated cloud financial governance engineer hired for the public cloud bill · Urgency: this year

Cloud security posture. Thousands of tenant workloads on containers make misconfiguration risk hard to watch continuously.

Today: a platform security engineer role covering clusters and containerized workloads · Urgency: this year

SOC 2 / ISO 27001 automation. We hold several certifications and want evidence for each refreshed automatically.

Today: a compliance platform plus code-scanning vendors supporting several attestations · Urgency: this year

Who decides

ciso security · security review

Expects from suppliers

Cost data joined to product usage; Container and cluster aware security checks; Remote-friendly support

Not a fit

Tools that only report without automated fixes; Per-resource pricing at our scale

Stack

cloud: AWS-class hyperscaler, Kubernetes, compliance tooling in place

Buying triggers

cost pressure, scaling transaction volume