Platform Engineer, Edge & Networking

The role

You will design, build, and operate robust, automated systems at the network perimeter. This includes managing the API gateway, routing, load balancing, DNS, and secure global traffic distribution.

What you will do

• 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 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 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
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews

Required qualifications

• 5+ years experience in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure
• 4+ years 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 (Go)
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems
• Knowledge of IPv6, BGP, Anycast, or advanced routing protocols
• Experience in managing large deployments on AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar
• Comfortable with cloud networking primitives (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools
• Experience with being part of on-call rotations for large production systems

Nice to have

• Pulumi preferred

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, built by developers for developers. It provides a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search.