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Release Engineer

Supabase· Engineering
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Remote, GlobalFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Release Engineer (SRE) to join the Release Engineering team within EngOps, focused on making deploys safe, observable, and recoverable at scale by treating deployment pipelines and control planes as production systems with SLOs, error budgets, and on-call ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Own the reliability of Supabase's deployment and release systems, and the control plane they run on, against clear SLOs and error budgets
  • Turn pre-production into a trustworthy signal — standardizing and instrumenting today's fragmented, ad-hoc deployment workflows
  • Drive disaster-recovery readiness, including making environments reproducibly deployable from scratch (untangling undocumented secrets, unclear configuration ownership, and circular service dependencies)
  • Build and operate health and SLO monitoring for critical user flows, using synthetic testing to catch regressions before customers do
  • Reduce mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-recover for deploy-related incidents — which account for a large share of our incident load
  • Participate in on-call, lead blameless postmortems, and turn findings into runbooks, alerting, and automation that remove toil
  • Improve deployment observability and auditability — a clear record of what shipped where, when, and by whom
  • Document operational procedures — break-glass paths, access models, and runbooks — so reliability knowledge isn't tribal
  • Define and track SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, and DORA delivery metrics — with meaningful alerting over noise
  • Ensure deployments fail fast and safely when health checks degrade
  • Harden access and break-glass workflows (e.g. scoped self-service) so the right people can act in an incident without unsafe workarounds
  • Partner with product engineering and platform teams to align release practices with reliability and availability targets

Qualifications

  • Have 5+ years in SRE, production operations, platform engineering, or release engineering
  • Have operated production systems at scale and carried on-call for them
  • Are fluent in SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, DORA metrics, and the observability tooling behind them (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, or similar)
  • Have led incident response with tooling like incident.io (or PagerDuty / Opsgenie), run blameless postmortems, and driven down MTTD/MTTR
  • Operate confidently on AWS (multiple accounts, IAM, VPC) in production
  • Are comfortable with infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform) and Kubernetes
  • Script and automate to eliminate toil rather than absorb it
  • Communicate clearly with both infrastructure specialists and product engineers
  • Thrive in async, globally distributed teams
  • Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and iterating toward better systems over time

Skills

Required:SRE / Production OperationsSLAs, SLOs, Error Budgets, DORA MetricsObservability ToolsIncident Response & PostmortemsCloud & Infra (AWS)Infrastructure as CodeKubernetesScripting & Automation

Benefits

  • Fully Remote
  • ESOP
  • Tech Allowance
  • Health Benefits
  • Annual Off-Sites
  • Flexible Work
  • Professional Development
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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