Platform Engineer, Edge & Networking

📋 Job Overview

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 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.

🏢 About Supabase

Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love. We have ~400 team members across 60+ countries, speaking 20+ languages. We've raised over $1B, including our $500M Series F, and have 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.

🎯 The Role

You'll design, build, and operate systems that are both robust and highly automated — enabling us 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.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• 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

📌 Required Qualifications

• 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

⭐ Desirable Experience

You might be a fit if you have the qualifications listed above.

🎁 Benefits

• 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.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Supabase hires globally. We do not currently offer visa sponsorship for this position.