Platform Engineer - Compute & Scaling

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary: Not Specified

Position Overview

Supabase, an Open Source and fully remote company building developer tools for databases, is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our Compute & Scaling squad. This team is responsible for the critical systems that power project provisioning, scaling, and the compute resources our users rely on daily. You will 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 3.5 million databases we manage.

Responsibilities

As part of the Compute Squad, you will:

• 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.

Requirements

You might be a fit if you have:

• 3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale.
• 5+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar), particularly compute, networking, and storage services.
• Strong software engineering skills (Go and Typescript).
• Strong understanding of container orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Nomad, or similar).
• Knowledge of networking and multi-region infrastructure design.
• Familiarity with Postgres or database systems.
• 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

• 100% Remote Work: Work from anywhere in the world with no location-based salary adjustments.
• ESOP: Equity ownership in the company.
• Autonomous Work: Collaborative project work with the flexibility to set your own pace.
• Health Benefits: Comprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental benefits, with Supabase covering 100% of costs for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Tech Allowance: For any office setup needs.
• Annual Education Allowance.
• Annual Off-sites.

About the Team

We are a startup environment that is largely unstructured. Our team is globally distributed, comprising individuals from over 30 different nationalities. We have collectively founded more than 30 startups and deeply believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source, supporting existing communities and tools. We "dogfood" everything we build; if we use it in our projects, we use it in Supabase.

Application Process

The entire process is fully remote, with all communication conducted over email or video chat.

1. Application Submission: Submit your application.
2. Screening Interview: The team will review your submission and may reach out for a short screening interview via video call.
3. Follow-up Interviews: If you pass the screening, you will be invited to up to four follow-up interviews, typically 20-45 minutes each. These are usually 1:1 and may include founders, members of the growth or engineering team, and individuals from your immediate team or function.
4. Decision: After interviews, the team will discuss candidates. They may reach out with follow-up questions via email or a quick call, or proceed directly to making an offer.