Release Engineer

The role

You will own the reliability of deployment and release systems and the control plane. You will standardize deployment workflows, drive disaster-recovery readiness, and build health monitoring for critical user flows.

What you will do

• Own the reliability of Supabase's deployment and release systems and the control plane
• Turn pre-production into a trustworthy signal by standardizing and instrumenting deployment workflows
• Drive disaster-recovery readiness and make environments reproducibly deployable
• Build and operate health and SLO monitoring for critical user flows
• Reduce mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-recover for deploy-related incidents
• Participate in on-call and lead blameless postmortems
• Improve deployment observability and auditability
• Document operational procedures including break-glass paths and runbooks
• Define and track SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, and DORA delivery metrics
• Ensure deployments fail fast and safely when health checks degrade

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, production operations, platform engineering, or release engineering
• Operated production systems at scale and carried on-call for them
• Fluent in SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, DORA metrics, and operational KPIs
• Experience with observability tooling like Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, or similar
• Led incident response with tooling like incident.io, PagerDuty, or Opsgenie
• Operate confidently on AWS (multiple accounts, IAM, VPC) in production
• Comfortable with infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform) and Kubernetes
• Script and automate to eliminate toil
• Communicate clearly with infrastructure specialists and product engineers
• Thrive in async, globally distributed teams
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and iterating toward better systems

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.