Platform Engineer - Compute

ABOUT THE ROLE

• We are seeking 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’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.
• You'll design, build, and operate systems that are both robust and highly automated — enabling us to provision new projects reliably at scale, optimize resource utilization, and deliver a seamless experience to the millions of databases which we manage.
• WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:
• - 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.
• YOU MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT IF YOU:
• - Have strong software engineering skills (Go and Typescript required); - Experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale; - Have 5+ years experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS required, additional experience with GCP and Azure is a plus) - particularly compute, networking, and storage services; - Have 3+ years experience working with building custom Kubernetes controllers, and operating large-scale (tens-to-hundreds of thousands of pods) clusters; - Are knowledgable about networking and multi-region infrastructure design; - Are familiar with Postgres; - Have experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi highly preferred, Terraform/CDK etc acceptable) - Have experience working with QEMU, KVM, and NAS is a plus; - Have experience with being part of on-call rotations for large production system;
• 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 ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.
• - Tech Allowance
• Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—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’s 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—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.
• - ~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’s 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.