Platform Engineer: Compute & Scaling - Remote

Overview

Supabase is an Open Source and fully remote company building developer tools for databases. We are seeking a platform engineer to join our Compute & Scaling squad. This team owns the critical systems that power project provisioning, scaling, and the compute that our users rely on every day.

In Short

• Help build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering;
• Design and implement systems to provision, scale, and manage the multi-region compute workloads powering Supabase projects;
• 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 our 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, while also identifying and resolving systemic issues across the platform.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 100% remote work from anywhere in the world. No location-based adjustment to your salary.
• ESOP (equity ownership in the company)
• Autonomous work. We work collaboratively on projects, but you 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.