Software Engineer - Branching

About Supabase

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.

About the Role

We’re building a high-performance CI/CD execution platform similar to runners used by tools like Buildkite, GitHub Actions, and Blacksmith CI. Our platform executes developer pipelines reliably at scale, integrates deeply with source control, and automates build, test, and deployment workflows.

In this role, you will design and build the distributed systems responsible for running CI/CD pipelines securely and efficiently. This includes orchestrating ephemeral compute environments, managing build isolation, scheduling jobs across fleets of workers, and ensuring reliability at scale.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Design and improve the core orchestration engine that manages the lifecycle of creating, merging, and rebasing Supabase Branches.
• Provision ephemeral sandboxed execution environment on EKS / ECS for running untrusted build workloads from connected git repositories with securely managed secrets.
• Implement job scheduling that scales to thousands of concurrent builds.
• Optimize and reduce pipeline runtimes with caching, artifact storage, and dependency reuse.
• Manage retry, timeout, cancellation, and failure-propagation logic to ensure pipelines behave predictably under failure conditions.
• Instrument the full pipeline lifecycle with observability tooling to surface traces, metrics, and structured logs to the end user.
• Develop configuration files (JSON / TOML) and integrations (Terraform / Pulumi) that allow teams to easily define, trigger, and inspect pipelines in code.

You Might Be a Good Fit If You

• Have strong software engineering skills (Go and Typescript required).
• Have 3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale.
• Have cloud Infrastructure knowledge—familiarity with AWS constructs is required, with past experience using AWS SDKs and IaC tools (Pulumi, Terraform, etc.) strongly preferred.
• Have a production operations mindset—a track record of building reliable, observable, and maintainable systems.
• Have an ownership mindset—you thrive in operating independently with high-level guidance.
• Communicate clearly across both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Have experience in async or globally distributed teams.
• Are energized by solving real-world problems for developers.
• Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and moving quickly.

What We Offer

• Fully Remote: We hire globally and provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
• ESOP: Every team member receives equity ownership in the company.
• Tech Allowance: Budget to set up your ideal work environment.
• Health Benefits: 100% coverage for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Annual Off-Sites: Company-wide gatherings in a new city once a year.
• Flexible Work: Asynchronous operations with trust in your time management.
• Professional Development: Annual education allowance for courses, books, and conferences.