Platform Engineer - Compute Capacity

The role

You will join the Compute Capacity team to manage the capacity plan that keeps compute supply ahead of demand. You will build and operate automated systems for reservation acquisition, fleet reconciliation, and capacity metrics.

What you will do

• Build and maintain the capacity plan across regions and instance families
• Support buffer policy by modeling headroom targets and cost tradeoffs
• Build automation for reservation acquisition, top-up, fleet reconciliation, and drift detection
• Extend infrastructure as code for capacity-relevant provisioning
• Build and maintain metrics for saturation, reservation coverage, idle buffer, forecast error, and provisioning latency
• Build and tune capacity alerting
• Support the demand gate for customer commitments, launches, migrations, and new regions
• Contribute to mitigation projects like right-sizing and autoscaling improvements
• Drive down compute cost per database
• Participate in capacity incident response and post-incident follow-through

Required qualifications

• 5+ years across infrastructure engineering, SRE, platform, or capacity engineering
• Production software engineering experience owning and operating a service
• Comfortable in modern languages like TypeScript, Python, and Go
• Comfortable working against incomplete forecasts and assumptions
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi or Terraform)
• Built or maintained observability for systems owned (Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar)
• Solid working knowledge of AWS EC2: instance families and generations, purchase options, capacity reservations, and quota mechanics
• Financial fluency regarding reservation economics and tradeoffs between coverage, utilization, and cost
• Communicate clearly across audiences from engineers to finance stakeholders

Nice to have

• Ideally at SaaS or cloud infrastructure scale

Benefits

• WeWork membership or co-working allowance
• ESOP (equity ownership)
• Tech Allowance for work environment setup
• 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 providing a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. The company is born-remote and open-source-first.