Platform Engineer, Compute at Supabase

About the Role

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to join our Compute team. This team owns the critical systems that power project provisioning, scaling, and the compute that our users rely on every day. You will 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. You will design, build, and operate systems that are robust and highly automated, enabling reliable project provisioning at scale, optimized resource utilization, and a seamless experience for the millions of databases we manage.

What You Will Be Responsible For

• Help build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering
• Design and implement systems to provision, scale, and manage multi region compute workloads powering Supabase projects
• Own the full lifecycle of compute orchestration, including 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 leverage compute as a core platform offering
• Participate in on call rotations, incident response, and post incident reviews
• Resolve escalated support issues while identifying and resolving systemic issues across the platform

You Might Be a Good Fit If You

• Have strong software engineering skills (Go and TypeScript required)
• Have experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale
• Have 5+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS required; additional experience with GCP and Azure is a plus), particularly compute, networking, and storage services
• Have 3+ years of experience working with custom Kubernetes controllers and operating large scale clusters (tens to hundreds of thousands of pods)
• Are knowledgeable about networking and multi region infrastructure design
• Are familiar with Postgres
• Have experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi highly preferred; Terraform or CDK acceptable)
• Have experience with QEMU, KVM, and NAS (a plus)
• Have experience being part of on call rotations for large production systems

What We Offer

• Fully Remote: We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.
• ESOP: Every team member receives equity ownership in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we are building together.
• Tech Allowance: Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment, including laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
• Health Benefits: Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family's health are important to us.
• Annual Off Sites: Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It is a highlight of our year.
• Flexible Work: We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.
• Professional Development: Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning, such as courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.

About the Team

Supabase was born remote and open source first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.

• Around 400 team members
• 60+ countries
• 20+ languages spoken
• Over $1B raised, including our $500M Series F
• 540,000+ community members

We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it is in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open source ecosystem and strive to support, not replace, existing tools and communities.