Container Engineer

The role

You will own the internal container platform that runs multi-tenant, multi-region services. You will build automation, platform APIs, and tooling to make the platform trustworthy, observable, and cheap to operate at scale.

What you will do

• Carry a share of the team's on-call rota and respond to platform incidents.
• Define SLIs/SLOs and error budgets for the container platform.
• Own the Operational Readiness Review process for new platform capabilities.
• Design and track metrics for platform uptime and observability.
• Facilitate blameless postmortems and drive systemic fixes.
• Build and maintain platform automation, controllers, operators, and internal tooling.
• Design and implement platform-side CI/CD and rollout primitives.
• Implement and maintain security automation including intrusion detection and patch management.
• Identify and quantify operational toil to build automation that removes it.
• Contribute to continual testing automation for platform releases.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in platform engineering, container/Kubernetes platform operations, SRE, or production infrastructure.
• Operated production systems at scale and carried on-call for them.
• Deep knowledge in at least one area: Tooling & ecosystem, Software engineering, or Operational / SRE practice.
• Worked with large-scale multi-tenant systems and understand isolation primitives.
• Operate confidently on AWS (multiple accounts, IAM, VPC).
• Comfortable with infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform, or CDK).
• Proficient with Kubernetes.
• Ability to write production code in Go and/or a comparable systems language.
• Ability to communicate clearly with infrastructure specialists and product engineers.
• Ability to thrive in async, globally distributed teams.

Nice to have

• Experience building and operating a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform that internal teams deploy onto.
• Familiarity with policy engines (Kyverno, or OPA/Gatekeeper).
• Familiarity with cost-attribution tooling (OpenCost/Kubecost).
• Experience with managed database platforms or Postgres.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, or similar observability tooling.
• Experience with Pulumi.

Benefits

• Fully Remote
• 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. It is a globally distributed team of approximately 400 members.