Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

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.

As outlined in Careem’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate based on any protected group status under any applicable law.

The collection of demographic information is for internal purposes only i.e. equal employment opportunity monitoring as well as diversity initiatives.

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