Supabase

Platform Engineer - Compute Capacity

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Remote, WorldwideSenior

Responsibilities

  • Help maintain regional compute capacity plans, buffer policies, and headroom targets.
  • Build automation for reservation acquisition and top-up, fleet reconciliation, and drift detection.
  • Extend infrastructure as code for capacity-related provisioning.
  • Build metrics and alerting for saturation, reservation coverage, idle buffer, forecast error, provisioning latency, headroom, quotas, and reservations.
  • Support intake of large customer commitments, launches, migrations, and new regions into the capacity plan.
  • Contribute to right-sizing, instance-family migration, autoscaling, workload consolidation, placement, and commitment coverage initiatives.
  • Participate in capacity incident response and post-incident follow-through.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience across infrastructure engineering, SRE, platform engineering, or capacity engineering, ideally at SaaS or cloud infrastructure scale.
  • Production software engineering experience owning and operating services.
  • Comfort with modern languages such as TypeScript, Python, and Go.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi or Terraform.
  • Experience building or maintaining observability, including metrics and trusted alerting, with Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar tools.
  • Working knowledge of AWS EC2 instance families and generations, purchase options, capacity reservations, and quota mechanics.
  • Understanding of reservation economics and tradeoffs among coverage, utilization, and cost.
  • Ability to work with incomplete forecasts and assumptions, revise plans as assumptions change, and communicate with engineering and finance stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with global hiring and no Supabase offices.
  • WeWork membership or coworking allowance usable worldwide.
  • ESOP equity ownership for every team member.
  • Tech allowance for equipment such as a laptop, monitor, or headphones.
  • Supabase covers 100% of employee health insurance and 80% for dependents, wherever available.
  • Annual company off-site in a new city.
  • Flexible asynchronous work schedule.
  • Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other professional development.

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