Platform Engineer: General Compute

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 Compute team. This team owns the critical systems that power project provisioning, scaling, and the compute that our users rely on every day.

Key Responsibilities

• 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, smart region selection, 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

Required Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills - Go and Typescript proficiency required, with at least 7 years of software engineering experience
• Cloud Infrastructure knowledge - familiarity with AWS constructs is required, past experience using the AWS SDKs and IaC tools (Pulumi, Terraform, etc) to build and operate infrastructure is strongly preferred.
• Production operations mindset - track record of building reliable, observable, and maintainable systems
• Ownership mindset - you thrive in being able to operate independently with high-level guidance

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 180+ team members across 40+ countries speaking 15+ languages. With $496M raised and 430,000+ community members, we move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities.

Benefits

• Fully Remote - We hire globally with no office requirements
• ESOP - Every team member receives equity ownership
• Tech Allowance - Budget for your ideal work environment
• Health Benefits - 100% coverage for employees
• Annual Off-Sites - Company gatherings in new cities
• Flexible Work - Asynchronous and trust-based work culture
• Professional Development - Annual education allowance