FinOps Engineer

Supabase is an Open Source and fully remote company building developer tools for databases.

We are seeking a FinOps Engineer to drive cost optimization and financial governance for our AWS infrastructure. This role will collaborate closely with engineering, finance, and operations teams to enhance cloud cost efficiency, establish best practices, and implement FinOps methodologies.

You will:

• Analyze AWS and GCP billing, usage, and cost trends to identify optimization opportunities.

• Implement cost-saving strategies, such as rightsizing, instance scheduling, reserved instances (RI), savings plans and Committed use discounts.

• Establish tagging policies, cost allocation mechanisms, and chargeback/showback models.

• Optimize data transfer costs, storage lifecycle policies, and networking expenses.

• Monitor spot instances, auto-scaling, and compute savings opportunities.

• Define and enforce FinOps best practices aligned with organizational objectives.

• Collaborate with finance to forecast cloud expenses, create budgets, and track financial KPIs.

• Work with engineering teams to align architecture decisions with cost efficiency.

• Implement automated cost reporting, anomaly detection, and alerting mechanisms.

• Utilize AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Cost & Usage Reports, GCP Billing Reports, Cost Tables, Committed Use Discounts Analysis, and Recommender API for cost insights.

• Integrate third-party cost optimization tools

• Develop automation scripts using AWS Lambda, Python, Terraform, or AWS SDKs to enforce cost policies.

• Leverage FinOps dashboards and Tableau for visualization.

• Work with our finance team to implement Continuous Accounting

You have:

• Strong AWS and GCP expertise

• Deep understanding of AWS and GCP pricing models, billing structures, and cost optimization techniques.

• Experience with FinOps tools and cloud cost management platforms.

• Automation & scripting skills (Python, Terraform, AWS Lambda, Bash, or CloudFormation).

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes (EKS), and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Ability to analyze cost data and present insights to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Automation & scripting skills (Python, Terraform, AWS Lambda, Bash, or CloudFormation).

• AWS Certified FinOps Practitioner or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner/Solutions Architect.

• Previous experience in a FinOps, cloud cost management, or cloud governance role.

We offer:

• 100% remote work from anywhere in the world. No location-based adjustment to your salary.

• ESOP (equity ownership in the company)

• Autonomous work. We work collaboratively on projects, but you set your own pace.

• Health, Vision and Dental benefits. Supabase covers 100% of the cost for employees and 80% for dependants

• Generous Tech Allowance for any office setup you need

• Annual Education Allowance

• Annually run off-sites.

About the team

• We're a startup. It's unstructured.

• Collectively founded more than 30 startups.

• Globally distributed team with more than 30 different nationalities.

• We deeply believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source. We support existing communities and tools, rather than building "yet another xx".

• We "dogfood" everything. If you use it in your project, we use it in Supabase.

Process

• The entire process is fully remote and all communication will happen over email or via video chat.

• Once you've submitted your application, the team will review your submission and may reach out for a short screening interview over a video call.

• If you pass the screen you will be invited to up to four follow-up interviews.

• The calls:

  • usually take between 20-45 minutes each depending on the interviewer.

  • most of the time, are all 1:1.

  • will be with the founders, a member of either the growth or engineering team (depending on the role) and usually one other person from your immediate team or function.

• Once the interviews are over, the team will meet to discuss several roles and candidates and may:

  • ask one or two follow-up questions over email or a quick call.

  • go directly to making an offer.