[Hiring] FinOps Engineer @Supabase

Role Description

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.

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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 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-technical audiences.
• Prior experience in a FinOps, cloud cost management, or cloud governance role.
• Energized by doing the unglamorous, high-leverage work (the schlep) that unblocks other teams, and by working cross-functionally without positional authority.

Benefits

• 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.