About Supabase

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.

About the Role

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.

What you’ll own

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, Pulumi, or AWS SDKs to enforce cost policies.
Leverage FinOps dashboards and Tableau for visualization.
Work with our finance team to implement Continuous Accounting.

What you bring

Previous experience in a FinOps, cloud cost management, or cloud governance role.
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.
AWS Certified FinOps Practitioner or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner/Solutions Architect.

What We Offer

Fully Remote