Supabase

Platform Engineer - Compute

Supabase
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23 hours ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering.
  • Design and implement systems for provisioning, scaling, and managing multi-region compute workloads.
  • Own compute orchestration across project creation, warm pools, autoscaling, resizing, and resource optimization.
  • Improve automation and observability to support high availability and performance.
  • Improve system architecture while balancing cost, security, reliability, and performance.
  • Collaborate with other teams to develop compute as a core platform offering.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
  • Resolve escalated support issues and identify systemic platform problems.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering skills in Go and TypeScript are required.
  • At least 5 years of experience with cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, and storage services, is required.
  • At least 3 years of experience building custom Kubernetes controllers and operating large-scale clusters is required.
  • Experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale is required.
  • Knowledge of networking and multi-region infrastructure design is required.
  • Familiarity with Postgres is required.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools is required; Pulumi is highly preferred, while Terraform and CDK are acceptable alternatives.
  • Experience with AWS is required; GCP and Azure experience is a plus.
  • Experience with QEMU, KVM, and NAS is a plus.
  • Experience participating in on-call rotations for large production systems is required.

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 a laptop, monitor, or headphones.
  • Supabase covers 100% of employee health insurance and 80% of dependent coverage.
  • Annual company off-sites in a new city.
  • Asynchronous and flexible 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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