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FinOps Engineer
About this role
Supabase is seeking a FinOps Engineer to drive cost optimization and cloud financial governance across AWS and GCP. The role collaborates with Engineering, Finance, and Product to identify savings, build tooling, and promote cost awareness, with hands-on work including scripting, Terraform or Lambda work, and influencing product decisions based on cost and reliability tradeoffs. The position emphasises clear communication to technical and non-technical stakeholders. It is a fully remote role with global eligibility. The employer provides benefits such as ESOP, a tech allowance, health coverage, and professional development support.
What you would do
- Identify and implement cost savings across AWS and GCP, from detection to realised savings
- Build and maintain cost attribution through tagging and chargeback/showback systems
- Automate cost governance with reporting, anomaly detection and alerts using code and IaC
- Collaborate with engineering on architecture to incorporate cost considerations early
- Partner with Finance on forecasting, budgeting, and KPI reporting through dashboards
- Communicate savings cases to engineering, finance, and leadership
- Maintain cost reporting and governance tooling and ensure scalability of processes
- Contribute to the design of cost-efficient system architectures and data flows
- Document FinOps processes and keep systems for tracking spend up to date
- Support adoption of cloud cost management practices across teams
What they are asking for
- Strong AWS expertise and working knowledge of GCP pricing and cost optimisation
- Automation and scripting skills (Python, Terraform/Pulumi, Lambda, Bash)
- Experience with cost/billing tooling (AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, GCP Billing Reports, BI dashboards)
- Familiarity with systems of record for FinOps work (Linear, Notion)
- Experience with or openness to cloud cost management platforms (e.g. CloudZero, Vantage) is a plus
- Ability to analyse cost data and present findings to technical and non-technical audiences
- Prior experience in FinOps, cloud cost management or cloud governance roles
- Willingness to perform high-leverage, cross-functional work without direct authority
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