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Platform Engineer - Compute Capacity

Supabase· Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Platform engineer role on the Compute Capacity team responsible for forecasting, buffering, provisioning, and automating capacity across regions and instance families to keep compute supply ahead of demand and provide a single view of available headroom.

Responsibilities

  • Help build and maintain the capacity plan that keeps Supabase's compute supply ahead of demand across regions and instance families
  • Support buffer policy by modeling headroom targets and their cost tradeoffs for review and sign-off
  • Build and maintain automation that turns the capacity plan into provisioned reality — reservation acquisition and top-up, fleet reconciliation, drift detection between committed and running capacity
  • Extend our infrastructure as code for capacity-relevant provisioning
  • Instrument capacity: build and maintain metrics for saturation, reservation coverage, idle buffer, forecast error, and provisioning latency
  • Build and tune capacity alerting so headroom, quota, and reservation issues surface months out rather than at the moment of impact
  • Support the demand gate — helping intake large customer commitments, launches, migrations, and new regions so they reach the plan before they reach the fleet
  • Contribute to mitigation projects: right-sizing, instance-family migrations, autoscaling improvements, workload consolidation
  • Help drive down compute cost per database through right-sizing, placement, and commitment coverage work
  • Participate in capacity incident response and post-incident follow-through

Qualifications

  • 5+ years across infrastructure engineering, SRE, platform, or capacity engineering, ideally at SaaS or cloud infrastructure scale
  • Production software engineering experience — ownership of a service; comfortable in TypeScript, Python, and Go
  • Experience with forecasting and working with incomplete assumptions
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi or Terraform)
  • Built or maintained observability for systems you own (metrics and alerting)
  • Solid working knowledge of AWS EC2: instance families/generations, purchase options, capacity reservations, quota mechanics
  • Some financial fluency — understanding reservation economics and tradeoffs between coverage, utilization, and cost
  • Clear communicator across engineers and finance stakeholders

Skills

Required:Capacity planningInfrastructure as CodeObservability and monitoringAWS EC2 knowledge

Benefits

  • Fully Remote
  • ESOP (equity ownership)
  • Tech Allowance
  • Health Benefits (100% for employees, 80% for dependents)
  • Annual Off-Sites
  • Flexible Work
  • Professional Development (annual education allowance)
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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