Supabase is hiring a Platform Engineer for the Compute & Scaling squad. You'll work on the core platform that ensures Supabase can seamlessly scale across multiple regions, handle high-volume workloads, and provide low-latency, highly available compute services for the 3.5M databases we manage.
What You'll Do
- Help build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering.
- Design and implement systems to provision, scale, and manage multi-region compute workloads.
- Own the full lifecycle of compute orchestration: project creation, warm pools, autoscaling, resizing, and resource optimization.
- Improve automation and observability across the compute stack to ensure high availability and performance.
- Improve system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security, reliability, and performance.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to help leverage compute as a core platform offering.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
- Resolve escalated support issues and identify systemic issues across the platform.
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale.
- 5+ years experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar), particularly compute, networking, and storage services.
- Strong software engineering skills (Go and Typescript).
- Strong understanding of container orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Nomad, or similar).
- Knowledge of networking and multi-region infrastructure design.
- Familiarity with Postgres or database systems.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi preferred, Terraform/CDK etc also acceptable).
- Experience with being part of on-call rotations for large production systems.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Go, Typescript
- Orchestration: Kubernetes/Nomad
- Cloud: AWS/GCP/Azure
- IaC: Pulumi/Terraform/CDK
- Database: Postgres
Team & Environment
You'll join the Compute & Scaling squad as part of a globally distributed team with more than 30 different nationalities. We're a startup with an unstructured, autonomous culture where we 'dogfood' our own tools.
Benefits & Compensation
- 100% remote work from anywhere in the world. No location-based salary adjustment.
- ESOP (equity ownership in the company).
- Autonomous work. Set your own pace.
- Health, Vision and Dental benefits. Supabase covers 100% of the cost for employees and 80% for dependents.
- Tech Allowance for any office setup you need.
- Annual Education Allowance.
- Annually run off-sites.
Work Mode
This is a global, fully remote position.
Supabase is an equal opportunity employer.
