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About the role
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.
We're looking for a FinOps Engineer to help drive cost optimization and cloud financial governance across our AWS infrastructure and GCP footprint. This is a hands-on engineering role, not an analyst seat. You'll work cross-functionally with Engineering, Finance, and Product to find and ship savings, build tooling, and cultivate a culture of cost awareness.
Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first, with ~400 team members across 60+ countries. We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship.
What you'll do
- Find and ship savings across AWS and GCP: Analyze billing, usage, and cost trends to identify opportunities in 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.
- Automate cost governance: Build automated cost reporting, anomaly detection, and alerting. Write 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.
- Explain savings cases to engineering teams, finance stakeholders, and leadership, and influence product decisions when cost to reliability tradeoffs hit.
What they're looking for
- Strong AWS expertise and working GCP knowledge, including pricing models, billing structures, and cost optimization mechanics.
- Automation and scripting skills: Python, Terraform/Pulumi, Lambda, or Bash.
- Comfortable with cost/billing tooling: AWS Cost Explorer, Cost & Usage Reports, GCP Billing Reports, and BI/dashboarding (we use Hex).
- Experience with, or comfortable picking up, Linear and Notion as the system of record for tracking and documenting FinOps work.
- Can analyze cost data and present it clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Prior experience in a FinOps, cloud cost management, or cloud governance role.
- Energized by doing the unglamorous, high-leverage work that unblocks other teams, and by working cross-functionally without positional authority.
Nice to have
- Experience with a dedicated cloud cost management platform (e.g. CloudZero, Vantage, or similar) is a plus, not required.
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Supabase benefits
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“"Fully Remote. We hire globally. Work remotely from anywhere in the world. We work in teams, but we work asynchronously."”
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