FinOps Engineer

Supabase; United States; A distancia; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Supabase is seeking a FinOps Engineer to drive cloud cost optimization across AWS and GCP in a hands-on role. You will analyze billing data, implement rightsizing, and build automated cost governance with code (Python, Terraform, Lambda).

You will partner with Engineering and Finance to embed cost awareness in design decisions and reporting. The ideal candidate brings deep cloud cost experience, scripting skills, and the ability to explain savings to technical and leadership audiences.

Formación

• 2+ years of hands-on FinOps or cloud cost management experience.
• Experience analyzing cloud billing data and identifying cost-saving opportunities.
• Ability to communicate savings cases to engineers, finance, and leadership.

Responsabilidades

• Find and ship savings across AWS and GCP by analyzing billing, usage and cost trends.
• Build and maintain cost attribution, tagging policies, and chargeback/showback mechanisms.
• Automate cost governance with reporting, anomaly detection, and IaC scripts (Python, Terraform, Lambda).
• Partner with engineering on architecture decisions to bake cost efficiency into design.
• Support forecasting and reporting with dashboards accessible to engineering and finance.

Conocimientos

Cloud cost optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Cloud cost governance

Data analysis

Herramientas

Terraform

Python

Lambda

BigQuery

Descripción del empleo

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're looking for a FinOps Engineer to help drive cost optimization and cloud financial governance across our AWS infrastructure and GCP footprint. You'll work cross-functionally with Engineering, Finance, and Product to find and ship savings, build the tooling necessary to maximize efficiency of every dollar spent in the cloud, and cultivate a culture of cost awareness across engineering teams. This is a hands-on engineering role, not an analyst seat. You'll do the schlep work other teams don't have time for, digging into a bucket's access pattern, writing the Terraform or Lambda that ships the fix, working on a product feature chasing a number until it reconciles, and influencing product decisions when cost to reliability tradeoffs hit. Strong communication matters as much as technical depth, you'll regularly explain a savings case to an engineering team, a finance stakeholder, and a leadership audience in the same week.

What You'll Be Responsible For

• Find and ship savings across AWS and GCP: Analyze billing, usage, and cost trends to identify opportunities, rightsizing, storage lifecycle policies, data transfer, and spot/auto-scaling. Take ideas from identification through to a realized dollar figure, not just a recommendation.
• Build and maintain cost attribution: Tagging policies, cost allocation, and chargeback/showback so engineering teams can see and own their own spend. This is foundational work other savings work depends on.
• Automate cost governance: Build automated cost reporting, anomaly detection, and alerting. Write the scripts and infrastructure-as-code (Python, Terraform, Lambda) that enforce cost policy rather than relying on manual review.
• Partner with engineering on architecture decisions: Bring cost into the room early, cost-efficiencies are cheaper to get right at design than to retrofit.
• Work with Finance on forecasting and reporting: Support budget tracking and financial KPIs; build dashboards engineering and finance can both read.

You Might Be a Good Fit If You

• Have strong AWS expertise and working GCP knowledge, including pricing models, billing structures, and cost optimization mechanics.
• Have automation and scripting skills: Python, Terraform/ pulumi, Lambda, or Bash.
• Are comfortable with cost/billing tooling: AWS Cost Explorer, Cost Usage Reports, GCP Billing Reports, and BI/dashboarding (we use Hex).
• Have experience with, or are comfortable picking up, Linear and Notion as the system of record for tracking and documenting FinOps work.
• Experience with a dedicated cloud cost management platform (e.g. CloudZero, Vantage, or similar) is a plus, not required.
• Can analyze cost data and present it clearly to both technical and non-tec