Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Job description / Role

The Infra FinOps Team

The Infra FinOps team focuses on maintaining and enhancing the internal tools used in Careem for cost monitoring and tracking cloud spending. We act as FinOps enablers, helping teams adhere to their AWS budgets by providing visibility, governance, and actionable insights to drive cost efficiency across Careem’s infrastructure.

What you'll do

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer under Infra FinOps, you will design, build, and operate systems that ensure accurate visibility into cloud costs and enable optimization opportunities across Careem’s platform.

What you'll do:

• Own, design, and maintain the internal FinOps tooling used for AWS cost monitoring, forecasting, and reporting.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to provide cost visibility and governance mechanisms, ensuring alignment with AWS budgets.
• Design, build, and maintain an anomaly detection mechanism to identify unusual cost patterns early and ensure we only pay for what we use.
• Automate data collection pipelines and cost analytics workflows using tools like Athena, Glue, QuickSight, and S3.
• Continuously enhance cost monitoring dashboards and improve data reliability and coverage.
• Partner with internal teams to enforce governance and budgeting policies through automation and alerts.
• Participate in on-call rotations to maintain reliability of FinOps tools and systems.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering, ideally with exposure to FinOps or cloud cost management.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services, pricing models, and cost optimization strategies.
• Solid understanding of data pipelines, ETL, and dashboarding tools (Athena, QuickSight, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with Athena, Glue, QuickSight, and S3 for cost data analysis and visualization.
• Good understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals — how clusters, workloads, and scaling behaviors impact cost and resource utilization.
• Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash preferred).
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) and monitoring/alerting systems.
• Solid problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to connect technical metrics to financial impact.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills to partner across engineering and finance teams.
• Knowledge of FinOps principles, tagging strategies, and budgeting best practices is a plus.

About the Company

We are a brand that aims to simplify people's lives by revolutionizing the transportation industry. A brand that strives to inspire everyone it interacts with, and supports every single person who dares to believe. #BeCareem

Careem is the MENA region's leading ride-hailing service and newest Tech Unicorn. With 30% monthly growth, we now operate in 50+ cities across 11 countries and host over 6 million users. With our recent Series D funding success, we are positioned on the cusp of significant scale and well on target to deliver our goal of creating one million jobs in the region by 2018.