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Platform Engineer - Compute

Supabase· Engineering
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Remote, GlobalFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Platform engineer to join the Compute team at Supabase. Build, design, and operate robust, automated compute platforms to provision, scale, and manage multi-region workloads powering Supabase projects, with focus on high availability, observability, cost optimization, and seamless user experience across databases.

Responsibilities

  • Help build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering;
  • Design and implement systems to provision, scale, and manage the multi-region compute workloads powering Supabase projects;
  • Own the full lifecycle of compute orchestration: project creation, warm pools, autoscaling, resizing, and resource optimization;
  • Improve automation and observability across the compute stack to ensure high availability and performance;
  • Improve our system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security, reliability, and performance;
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to help leverage compute as a core platform offering;
  • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews;
  • Resolve escalated support issues, while also identifying and resolving systemic issues across the platform.

Qualifications

  • Have strong software engineering skills (Go and Typescript required);
  • Experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale;
  • 5+ years experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS required, additional experience with GCP and Azure is a plus) - particularly compute, networking, and storage services;
  • 3+ years experience working with building custom Kubernetes controllers, and operating large-scale (tens-to-hundreds of thousands of pods) clusters;
  • Are knowledgable about networking and multi-region infrastructure design;
  • Are familiar with Postgres;
  • Have experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi highly preferred, Terraform/CDK etc acceptable);
  • Have experience working with QEMU, KVM, and NAS is a plus;
  • Have experience with being part of on-call rotations for large production system;

Skills

Required:GoTypescript

Benefits

  • Fully Remote: hire globally with WeWork membership or co-working allowance;
  • ESOP (equity ownership) in the company;
  • Tech Allowance to set up your work environment;
  • Health Benefits: 100% health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents;
  • Annual Off-Sites for the entire company;
  • Flexible Work: asynchronous work culture;
  • Professional Development: annual education allowance for learning.
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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