USD per year
About Supabase
Supabase is a 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 finance team to implement
Continuous Accounting.
The team
The team is globally distributed (180+ members in 40+ countries), open-source-first with a strong community presence.
Hiring process is simple and remote:
- Apply
- Intro Call
- Interviews (up to four calls)
- Decision
Benefits
Supabase offers fully remote work environment with benefits including ESOP equity ownership, tech allowance for work setup, health benefits covering employees fully and dependents partially worldwide, annual off-sites for company gatherings, flexible asynchronous work schedule, and professional development allowance.
Supabase is the Postgres development platform. Start your project with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, Realtime subscriptions, Storage, and Vector embeddings. It offers a full Postgres database with built-in Auth and Row Level Security, Edge Functions for custom code without server management, Storage for large files, Realtime data synchronization, Vector integration for ML-models, and instant ready-to-use Restful APIs.
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