Platform Engineer - Compute

About the Role

We are seeking a platform engineer to join our Compute team. This team owns the critical systems that power project provisioning, scaling, and the compute that our users rely on every day.

You’ll work on the core platform that ensures Supabase can seamlessly scale across multiple regions, handle high-volume workloads, and provide low-latency, highly available compute services.

You'll design, build, and operate systems that are both robust and highly automated — enabling us to provision new projects reliably at scale, optimize resource utilization, and deliver a seamless experience to the millions of databases which we manage.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Help build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering.
• Design and implement systems to provision, scale, and manage the multi-region compute workloads powering Supabase projects.
• Own the full lifecycle of compute orchestration: project creation, warm pools, autoscaling, resizing, and resource optimization.
• Improve automation and observability across the compute stack to ensure high availability and performance.
• Improve our system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to help leverage compute as a core platform offering.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
• Resolve escalated support issues, while also identifying and resolving systemic issues across the platform.

What You Bring

• Strong software engineering skills (Go and TypeScript required).
• Experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale.
• 5+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS required, additional experience with GCP and Azure is a plus) — particularly compute, networking, and storage services.
• 3+ years of experience working with custom Kubernetes controllers and operating large-scale (tens-to-hundreds of thousands of pods) clusters.
• Deep knowledge of networking and multi-region infrastructure design.
• Familiarity with Postgres.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi highly preferred, Terraform/CDK acceptable).
• Experience working with QEMU, KVM, and NAS is a plus.
• Experience participating in on-call rotations for large production systems.

What We Offer

• Fully Remote: We hire globally. There are no Supabase offices, and we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
• ESOP: Equity ownership in the company for every team member.
• Tech Allowance: Budget to set up your ideal work environment (laptop, monitor, headphones, etc.).
• Health Benefits: Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents worldwide.
• Annual Off-Sites: Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection and collaboration.
• Flexible Work: We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own schedule.
• Professional Development: Annual education allowance to spend on learning, courses, books, and conferences.

About the Team

Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.

• ~400 team members
• 60+ countries
• 20+ languages spoken
• Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)
• 540,000+ community members