Platform Engineer - Compute & Scaling

Location Type: Remote Employment Type: FullTime

Position Overview

Supabase is an Open Source and fully remote company building developer tools for databases. 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 5 million databases which 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:

• Strong software engineering skills (Go and Typescript required).
• 3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale.
• 5+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS required, additional experience with GCP and Azure is a plus) - particularly compute, networking, and storage services.
• 3+ years of experience working with building custom Kubernetes controllers, and operating large-scale (tens-to-hundreds of thousands of pods) clusters.
• Knowledge of networking and multi-region infrastructure design.
• Familiarity with Postgres.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi highly preferred, Terraform/CDK etc acceptable).
• Experience working with QEMU, KVM, and NAS is a plus.
• Experience with being part of on-call rotations for large production systems.

We Offer

• 100% Remote Work: Work from anywhere in the world. No location-based salary adjustments.
• Autonomous Work: Collaborate on projects while setting your own pace.
• Comprehensive Benefits:
  • Health, Vision, and Dental benefits (Supabase covers 100% for employees and 80% for dependents).
  • Generous Tech Allowance for office setup.
  • Annual Education Allowance.
• Team Events: Annually run off-sites.

About the Team

We're a startup that is unstructured. Our team has collectively founded more than 30 startups and is globally distributed with more than 30 different nationalities. We deeply believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source, supporting existing communities and tools rather than building "yet another xx". We "dogfood" everything; if you use it in your project, we use it in Supabase.

Application Process

The entire process is fully remote, with all communication happening 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 screen, 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 someone from your immediate team or function.
4. Final Decision: After interviews, the team will discuss candidates. They may ask follow-up questions via email or a quick call, or proceed directly to making an offer.