FinOps Engineer - Supabase

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 Hex for BI/dashboarding).
• Have experience with, or are comfortable picking up, Linear and Notion as the system of record for tracking and documenting FinOps work.
• Have prior experience in a FinOps, cloud cost management, or cloud governance role (experience with dedicated platforms like CloudZero or Vantage is a plus).
• Can analyze cost data and present it clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Are energized by doing high-leverage work that unblocks other teams and working cross-functionally without positional authority.

What We Offer

• Fully Remote: We hire globally. 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 equity ownership in the company.
• Tech Allowance: 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.
• Annual Off-Sites: Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection and collaboration.
• Flexible Work: We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time.
• Professional Development: Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or learning resources.

About the Team

Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. Our globally distributed team spans ~400 members across 60+ countries and 20+ languages.