Supabase

Platform Engineer, Edge & Networking

Supabase
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7 hours ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior

Responsibilities

  • Help build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering.
  • Design and implement Supabase’s global edge router platform.
  • Build programmable, API-driven routing logic to dynamically steer customer traffic.
  • Work with DNS, WAF, IP networking, TLS termination, CDN integrations, and global load balancing.
  • Implement observability for metrics, logs, latency, traffic shaping, routing health, and failure mitigation.
  • Optimize routing performance to reduce latency and improve reliability across cloud regions.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to integrate networking solutions across the Supabase stack.
  • Improve system architecture while balancing cost, security, reliability, and performance.
  • Design CI/CD systems and support change and release management.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
  • Resolve escalated support issues and identify systemic platform issues.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure.
  • At least 4 years of experience building and operating high-scale networking or edge infrastructure.
  • Strong experience with HTTP, TCP/IP, TLS certificate management, CDN internals, load balancing, and global routing.
  • Proficiency with traffic proxies or routers such as Envoy, NGINX, HAProxy, or Traefik.
  • Experience designing highly available systems with failover and real-time observability.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Go.
  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems.
  • Knowledge of IPv6, BGP, Anycast, or advanced routing protocols.
  • Experience managing large deployments on AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar platforms.
  • Experience with cloud networking primitives.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools; Pulumi is preferred, while Terraform and CDK are acceptable.
  • Experience participating in on-call rotations for large production systems.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with global hiring and no Supabase offices.
  • WeWork membership or a coworking allowance usable anywhere in the world.
  • ESOP equity ownership for every team member.
  • Technology allowance for equipment such as laptops, monitors, or headphones.
  • Supabase covers 100% of employee health insurance and 80% of dependent coverage.
  • Annual company off-sites.
  • Flexible asynchronous work arrangements.
  • Annual professional-development and education allowance.
Supabase

About Supabase

201-500 employees

Supabase builds an open-source Postgres-based backend platform for developers, bundling database, authentication, storage, realtime APIs, edge functions, and vector search. It monetizes through a managed cloud service and enterprise offerings while remaining deployable self-hosted. Founded in 2020 and privately held, the company operates globally with a fully remote team. Developers use Supabase as a Firebase alternative to launch quickly and scale production applications on PostgreSQL.

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