11 hours ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement distributed services and APIs powering the Supabase Platform.
- Lead projects that improve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Build data-intensive workflows, background jobs, and event-driven pipelines.
- Own service SLIs/SLOs and participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
- Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, and profiling.
- Contribute to CI/CD and release processes.
- Partner with product teams to deliver features from design documents through production.
- Write design documents, RFCs, and high-quality tests.
Requirements
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems, including consistency, fault tolerance, partitioning, consensus, and back pressure.
- Proficiency in TypeScript and/or Go, ideally with 5+ years building production services in one or both languages.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and container orchestration.
- Familiarity with multi-tenant architectures, API design, and data modeling.
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals and security best practices.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code; Pulumi is preferred, with Terraform or CDK also accepted.
- Comfort participating in on-call rotations for large-scale production systems.
- Preferred experience includes Postgres internals, logical replication, CDC pipelines, service meshes, workload identity, zero-trust networking, performance engineering, capacity planning, or open-source contributions in systems, databases, or runtime tooling.
Benefits
- Fully remote, globally distributed work with no Supabase offices.
- WeWork membership or coworking allowance.
- ESOP equity ownership for every team member.
- Tech allowance for equipment and work-environment needs.
- Health insurance covered at 100% for employees and 80% for dependents.
- Annual company off-sites.
- Flexible asynchronous work.
- Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other professional development.
Tech Stack
About Supabase
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.