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Platform Security Engineer (AMER/APAC)

Supabase· Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Platform Security Engineer to strengthen the security of Supabase’s infrastructure, cloud platform, Kubernetes environments, and containerized workloads. Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, SRE, product engineering, and leadership to reduce risk and build scalable guardrails for a large cloud platform.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and reduce security risk across AWS, Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and platform infrastructure.
  • Conduct threat modeling, architecture reviews, and technical risk assessments for platform and infrastructure systems.
  • Partner closely with infrastructure, platform, and SRE teams to design practical controls and secure-by-default patterns.
  • Improve Kubernetes and container security across workload isolation, RBAC, admission control, secrets, network policy, and runtime hardening.
  • Assess container runtime and Linux isolation risks, including capabilities, seccomp/AppArmor, namespaces, cgroups, and container escape scenarios.
  • Strengthen AWS security posture across IAM, account boundaries, network controls, logging, detection, encryption, and service configuration.
  • Build scalable mechanisms such as automation, guardrails, paved paths, detection, secure defaults, and review frameworks.
  • Distinguish between theoretical risk and material platform risk to prioritize security efforts effectively.

Qualifications

  • Senior-level experience in platform security, cloud security, infrastructure security, container security, or security engineering.
  • Deep practical experience with AWS, Kubernetes, containers, and Linux security fundamentals.
  • Experience in large cloud environments, multi-cluster Kubernetes setups, developer platforms, SaaS platforms, or high-scale infrastructure teams.
  • Ability to reason about identity, networking, workload isolation, runtime security, secrets, supply chain, and blast radius.
  • Clear written and asynchronous communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience managing security efforts across complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
  • Interest in guardrails, automation, and secure defaults over processes.

Skills

Required:AWSKubernetesContainers/Linux SecurityThreat Modeling

Benefits

  • Fully Remote: Global hire with no office; WeWork/co-working allowance.
  • ESOP (equity ownership) for all team members.
  • Tech Allowance for setup (laptop, monitor, peripherals).
  • Health Benefits: 100% health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, worldwide.
  • Annual Off-Sites: company-wide in-person gathering.
  • Flexible Work: Async work culture and self-managed schedules.
  • Professional Development: Annual education allowance for learning.
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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