Software Engineer - Branching

The role

You will design and build distributed systems to run CI/CD pipelines securely and efficiently. This includes orchestrating ephemeral compute environments, managing build isolation, and scheduling jobs across fleets of workers.

What you will do

• Design and improve the core orchestration engine for Supabase Branches.
• Provision ephemeral sandboxed execution environment on EKS / ECS.
• Implement job scheduling that scale to thousands of concurrent builds.
• Optimize and reduce pipeline runtimes with caching, artifact storage, and dependency reuse.
• Manage retry, timeout, cancellation, and failure-propagation logic.
• Instrument the full pipeline lifecycle with observability tooling.
• Develop configuration files and integrations that allow teams to define, trigger, and inspect pipelines in code.

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills (Go and Typescript required)
• 3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale
• Cloud Infrastructure knowledge - familiarity with AWS constructs is required
• Production operations mindset
• Ownership mindset
• Communicate clearly across both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience in async or globally distributed teams
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and moving quickly

Nice to have

• Past experience using the AWS SDKs and IaC tools (Pulumi, Terraform, etc) to build and operate infrastructure

Benefits

• WeWork membership or co-working allowance
• ESOP (equity ownership)
• Tech Allowance
• 100% health insurance for employees
• 80% health insurance for dependents
• Annual Off-Sites
• Flexible Work
• Annual education allowance

About the company

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. It provides a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search.