Supabase

Platform Security Engineer (AMER/APAC)

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3 hours ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior

Responsibilities

  • Identify and reduce security risk across AWS, Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and platform infrastructure.
  • Conduct threat modeling, architecture reviews, and technical risk assessments for platform and infrastructure systems.
  • Partner with infrastructure, platform, and SRE teams to design practical controls and secure-by-default patterns.
  • Improve Kubernetes and container security through workload isolation, RBAC, admission control, secrets management, network policy, and runtime hardening.
  • Assess container runtime and Linux isolation risks, including capabilities, seccomp/AppArmor, namespaces, cgroups, and container escape scenarios.
  • Strengthen AWS security across IAM, account boundaries, network controls, logging, detection, encryption, and service configuration.
  • Build scalable automation, guardrails, paved paths, detection mechanisms, secure defaults, and review frameworks.
  • Prioritize security efforts by distinguishing theoretical risk from material platform risk and manage initiatives across complex stakeholder groups.

Requirements

  • Senior-level experience in platform security, cloud security, infrastructure security, container security, or security engineering.
  • Deep practical experience with AWS, Kubernetes, containers, and Linux security fundamentals.
  • Experience with large cloud environments, multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments, developer platforms, SaaS platforms, or high-scale infrastructure teams.
  • Strong understanding of identity, networking, workload isolation, runtime security, secrets, supply chain, and blast radius.
  • Clear written communication across technical and non-technical audiences in an asynchronous environment.
  • Ability to manage security efforts across complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
  • Pragmatic approach to building guardrails, automation, and secure defaults while navigating ambiguity and moving quickly.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with global hiring and no required Supabase office; WeWork membership or co-working allowance provided.
  • 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 applicable.
  • Annual company off-site held in a new city for one week.
  • Flexible asynchronous work schedule.
  • Annual professional development and education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other learning.
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