Platform Engineer: Kubernetes

Supabase is an Open Source and fully remote company building developer tools for databases.

We are seeking a platform engineer to join our Compute & Scaling squad. This team owns the critical systems that power project provisioning, scaling, and the compute that our users rely on every day.

You’ll work on the core platform that ensures Supabase can seamlessly scale across multiple regions, handle high-volume workloads, and provide low-latency, highly available compute services.

You'll design, build, and operate systems that are both robust and highly automated — enabling us to provision new projects reliably at scale, optimize resource utilization, and deliver a seamless experience to the 5M databases which we manage.

As part of the Compute Squad you will:

• 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.

You might be a fit if you have:

• Strong software engineering skills (Go and Typescript required);

• 3+ years of 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;

• Knowledge of networking and multi-region infrastructure design;

• Familiarity with Postgres;

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi highly preferred, Terraform/CDK etc acceptable)

• Experience working with QEMU, KVM, and NAS is a plus;

• Experience with being part of on-call rotations for large production systems

We offer:

• 100% remote work from anywhere in the world. No location-based adjustment to your salary.

• Autonomous work. We work collaboratively on projects, but you set your own pace.

• Health, Vision and Dental benefits. Supabase covers 100% of the cost for employees and 80% for dependants

• Generous Tech Allowance for any office setup you need

• Annual Education Allowance

• Annually run off-sites.

About the team

• We're a startup. It's unstructured.

• Collectively founded more than 30 startups.

• Globally distributed team with more than 30 different nationalities.

• We deeply believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source. We support existing communities and tools, rather than building "yet another xx".

• We "dogfood" everything. If you use it in your project, we use it in Supabase.

Process

• The entire process is fully remote and all communication will happen over email or via video chat.

• Once you've submitted your application, the team will review your submission and may reach out for a short screening interview over a video call.

• If you pass the screen you will be invited to up to four follow-up interviews.

• The calls:

  • usually take between 20-45 minutes each depending on the interviewer.

  • most of the time, are all 1:1.

  • will be with the founders, a member of either the growth or engineering team (depending on the role) and usually one other person from your immediate team or function.

• Once the interviews are over, the team will meet to discuss several roles and candidates and may:

  • ask one or two follow-up questions over email or a quick call.

  • go directly to making an offer.