Senior FinOps Engineer, SRE

At Hostelworld (Permanent), in Porto, Portugal

Expires at : 2026-03-26

Remote policy : Full remote

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

The SRE Senior FinOps Engineer is the domain owner for cloud financial operations. You will shift us from reactive cost reporting to proactive optimisation and forecasting, partnering closely with SRE, DBAs, Product Engineering and Finance to create visibility, governance and a culture of cost accountability across Google Cloud Platform. Your remit includes using GCP billing exports, dashboards and tagging to drive decisions, as well as hands‑on optimisation of compute, storage and databases.

You will sit in the SRE / DBA organisation and partner daily with Senior SREs and DBAs, while working cross‑functionally with Product Engineering and Finance to align spend decisions with reliability, performance and business goals.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Visibility and analysis

• Create a single source of truth for cloud cost and usage using GCP Billing exports, BigQuery and Looker / Tableau; deliver self‑serve dashboards that show spend by project, team and service.
• Design and govern a resource labelling / tagging standard; audit for compliance and drive adoption across environments.
• Implement budgets and alerts on all projects, with clear ownership and escalation paths.

Optimisation and engineering

Forecasting and financial partnership

Governance, operating rhythm and culture

Main requirements

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Expertise

Collaboration and influence

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN THE FIRST 12 MONTHS

Nice to have

Benefits & Perks

WHAT WE OFFER

OUR BEHAVIOURS

Grow others - We fundamentally believe that investing in growing others benefits everyone, whether it's helping them develop hard or soft skills. We want learning and growing to be part of our DNA to help makes us a better team, together.

Master it - We are obsessed with our area of expertise and enjoy developing our skills. We rarely take things at face value; we investigate, interrogate, and always look for ‘the why,’ and wherever possible, we use data to find the best solution.

Collaborate - We are in it together, for the tough stuff and the celebrations too. To achieve the best results, we need expertise from all areas of the organisation, and we wholeheartedly welcome diverse thinking.

Adapt - We work fluidly, adapting to new information and the evolving environment while staying committed to our goals. Innovation and experimentation fuel our projects and we’re never afraid to pivot.

Deliver - Our focus is always on the end result; we value outcomes over activity. We collaborate to deliver work at speed without dropping any of our other behaviours.

We believe in talented and diverse teams that reflect the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we operate. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences. We lay out the above requirements to guide applicants to the experiences that we believe will allow you to be successful in the role. If you don’t meet them all, please consider applying if you think you can still perform the role as described.