Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

About the Company

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East — making it easy to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Our purpose is simple: to simplify and improve people’s lives and build an awesome organisation that inspires.

Since 2012, Careem has enabled earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of more than 70 million customers, and built a platform where the region’s best talent and entrepreneurs thrive. We operate in 70+ cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

We’re now entering our next chapter — one powered by AI. We’re looking for AI talent: curious problem-solvers who know how to apply AI to build tools, automate workflows, and create real impact. Whether it’s streamlining operations, enhancing customer experience, or reimagining internal systems — we want people who can make Careem work smarter and move faster.

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.

Key Responsibilities Include

• 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.