Platform Engineer: Kubernetes

Supabase

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IT Services and IT Consulting 👥 51 employees 📍 Global, US Est. 2020

Build in a weekend. Scale to millions. Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. Start your project with a Postgres Database, Authentication, instant APIs, and realtime subscriptions.

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 & Scaling squad. 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 5M databases which we manage.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 in Kubernetes


• Maintain our Go-based Kubernetes operator that orchestrates distributed Postgres deployments


• Design and implement robust deployment patterns for EKS and other Kubernetes platforms


• Work with CSI drivers, persistent volumes, and cross-cloud networking to ensure data reliability and connectivity


• 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

You might be a fit if you have:

• Strong software engineering skills - Go and Typescript proficiency required, with experience building production-grade Kubernetes operators or controllers


• 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.


• Deep Kubernetes expertise - Hands-on experience with Kubernetes internals, custom resources, and cloud-managed Kubernetes services (EKS, GKE, AKS)


• 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.

180+ team members
40+ countries
15+ languages spoken
$496M raised
430,000+ community members
30,000+ memes posted (and counting)

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.

Benefits

• Fully Remote - We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere.


• ESOP - Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company.


• Tech Allowance - Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment.


• Health Benefits - Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents.


• Annual Off-Sites - Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun.


• Flexible Work - We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time.


• Professional Development - Every team member receives an annual education allowance.