Platform Engineer - Compute

The role

You will design, build, and operate automated systems for project provisioning, scaling, and compute orchestration. You will work on the core platform to ensure seamless scaling across multiple regions and high-volume workloads.

What you will do

• Help build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering
• Design and implement systems to provision, scale, and manage multi-region compute workloads
• Own the full lifecycle of compute orchestration including project creation, warm pools, autoscaling, resizing, and resource optimization
• Improve automation and observability across the compute stack
• Improve system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security, reliability, and performance
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews
• Resolve escalated support issues and identify systemic issues

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills in Go and Typescript
• Experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale
• 5+ years experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS required)
• 3+ years experience working with building custom Kubernetes controllers and operating large-scale clusters
• Knowledgeable about networking and multi-region infrastructure design
• Familiar with Postgres
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools
• Experience with being part of on-call rotations for large production system

Nice to have

• Experience with GCP and Azure
• Pulumi highly preferred
• Terraform/CDK etc acceptable
• Experience with working with QEMU, KVM, and NAS

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 a remote and open-source-first company with approximately 400 team members in over 60 countries. They have raised over $1B and support a community of over 540,000 members.