Supabase - Platform Engineer: Data
Requirements
• 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. • Experience with Postgres internals, logical replication, or CDC pipelines. • Experience with service meshes, workload identity, or zero-trust networking. • Background in performance engineering and capacity planning. • Open source contributions in systems, databases, or runtime tooling.
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.
Benefits
• Fully Remote • We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world. • Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together. • Tech Allowance • Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work. • Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family’s health are important to us. • Annual Off-Sites • Annual Off-Sites • Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year. • Flexible Work • We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when. • Professional Development • Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth. • Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love. • 180+ team members • 15+ languages spoken • 430,000+ community members • 30,000+ memes posted (and counting) • We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities. • We keep things simple, async-friendly, and respectful of your time: • Intro Call – A short video chat to get to know each other. • Interviews – Up to four calls with: • Future teammates • Someone cross-functional from product, growth, or engineering (depending on the role) • Decision – We may follow up with a final question or go straight to offer. • All communication is remote and we aim to move fast.
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