FinOps Engineer

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, Terraform, 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

We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.

• ESOP

Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.

• Tech Allowance

Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.

• Health Benefits

Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family’s health are important to us.

• Annual Off-Sites

Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year.

• Flexible Work

We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.

• Professional Development

Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.

About the Team

Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.

• 180+ team members
• 40+ countries
• 15+ languages spoken
• $496M raised
• 430,000+ community members
• 30,000+ memes posted (and counting)

We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities.

Hiring Process

We keep things simple, async-friendly, and respectful of your time:

1. Apply – Our team will review your application.

2. Intro Call – A short video chat to get to know each other.

3. Interviews – Up to four calls with:

• Founders
• Future teammates
• Someone cross-functional from product, growth, or engineering (depending on the role)

4. Decision – We may follow up with a final question or go straight to offer.

All communication is remote and we aim to move fast.