Platform Engineer - Edge & Networking

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 Edge & Networking squad. This team is responsible for all aspects of the network perimeter, including API gateway, routing, load balancing, DNS, and secure global traffic distribution. The ideal candidate will design, build, and operate robust, highly automated systems to ensure reliable scaling, low latency, and high availability across our global infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with other infrastructure and product teams to ensure seamless integration, observability, and performance of our edge services.

Responsibilities

As part of the Edge & Networking Squad, you will:

• 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, including 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 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 and identify and resolve systemic issues across the platform.

Requirements

You might be a fit if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure.
• 4+ years of 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, particularly in Go.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems.
• Knowledge of IPv6, BGP, Anycast, or advanced routing protocols.
• Experience managing large deployments on AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar.
• Comfort with cloud networking primitives (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi preferred; Terraform/CDK also acceptable).
• Experience participating in 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.
• Autonomy: Work collaboratively on projects, setting your own pace.
• Benefits: Health, Vision, and Dental benefits (Supabase covers 100% for employees and 80% for dependents).
• Tech Allowance: For any office setup needs.
• Annual Education Allowance.
• Annual Run-offsites.

About the Team

We are a startup with an unstructured environment. Our team has collectively founded more than 30 startups and is globally distributed, representing over 30 different nationalities. We deeply believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source, supporting existing communities and tools rather than building duplicates. We "dogfood" everything we build.

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 lasting between 20-45 minutes each.