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Platform Engineer, Managed Postgres

Supabase· Engineering
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Remote, GlobalFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Platform Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems to design, build, and maintain core platform services for Supabase, primarily using TypeScript and Go, to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure systems at massive scale.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement distributed services and APIs that power the Supabase Platform.
  • Lead projects that improve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency across existing systems.
  • Build data-intensive workflows, background jobs, and event-driven pipelines.
  • Own service SLIs/SLOs and collaborate on incident response and post-incident reviews.
  • Improve system observability with metrics, logging, tracing, and profiling.
  • Contribute to our CI/CD and release processes to ship safely and quickly.
  • Partner with product teams to deliver features end-to-end, from design docs to production.
  • Write clear design documents, RFCs, and high-quality tests.

Qualifications

  • Experienced in designing and operating distributed systems, with strong foundations in consistency, fault tolerance, partitioning, consensus, and back pressure.
  • Proficient in TypeScript and/or Go, ideally with 5+ years building production services in one or both languages (other languages also considered).
  • Comfortable with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and container orchestration.
  • Familiar with multi-tenant architectures, API design, and data modelling.
  • Knowledgeable about networking fundamentals and security best practices.
  • Experienced with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi preferred; Terraform/CDK also fine).
  • Comfortable participating in on-call rotations for large-scale production systems.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designTypeScriptContainer orchestrationInfrastructure as CodeOn-call rotations
Nice to have:GoCloud infrastructure

Benefits

  • Fully Remote: We hire globally. We provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
  • ESOP: Equity ownership for all team members.
  • Tech Allowance: Budget for setup of home office equipment.
  • Health Benefits: 100% health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents.
  • Annual Off-Sites: Company-wide gathering once a year.
  • Flexible Work: Async collaboration and self-managed timelines.
  • Professional Development: Annual education allowance for learning.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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