Platform Engineer, Edge & Networking

• Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.
• We are seeking a platform engineer to join our Edge & Networking squad. This team owns everything that happens at the network perimeter: API gateway, routing, load balancing, DNS, and secure global traffic distribution.
• You'll design, build, and operate systems that are both robust and highly automated — enabling us to to scale reliably while maintaining low latency and high availability across our global infrastructure.
• You will work closely with other infrastructure and product teams to ensure seamless integration, observability, and performance of our edge services.
• WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:
• - Help build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering; - Design and implement Supabase’s global edge router platform; - Build programmable, API-driven routing logic to dynamically steer customer traffic; - Work with DNS, WAF, IP networking, TLS termination, CDN integrations, and global load balancing; - Implement advanced observability: relevant metric and log capturing, latency measurements, traffic shaping, routing health, and failure mitigation.
• - Optimize routing performance to minimize latency and improve reliability across cloud regions.
• - Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to integrate networking solutions into the entire Supabase stack; - Improve our system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security, reliability, and performance; - Design CI/CD systems to speed up deployments with proper change and release management processes; - Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews for edge-related issues; - Resolve escalated support issues, while also identifying and resolving systemic issues across the platform.
• YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:
• - 5+ years experience in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure; - 4+ years experience building and operating high-scale networking or edge infrastructure; - Strong experience with HTTP, TCP/IP, TLS certificate management, CDN internals, load balancing, and global routing; - Proficiency with traffic proxies / routers (e.g., Envoy, NGINX, HAProxy, Traefik, or building your own); - Experience designing systems for high availability, failover, and real-time observability; - Strong software engineering skills (Go); - Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems; - Knowledge of IPv6, BGP, Anycast, or advanced routing protocols; - Experience in managing large deployments on AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar; - Comfortable with cloud networking primitives (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar); - 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.

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.