Supabase · 6 months ago
Platform Engineer: Kubernetes
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
3+ years expSupabase is a Postgres development platform built for developers, providing a complete backend solution. They are seeking a Platform Engineer to join their Compute & Scaling squad, responsible for designing and operating systems that ensure seamless scaling and low-latency compute services for their users.
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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
Qualification
Required
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
Benefits
WeWork membership or co-working allowance
ESOP (equity ownership)
Tech Allowance
Health Benefits
Annual Off-Sites
Flexible Work
Professional Development
Company
Supabase
Supabase offers an open source backend platform for app development built around a managed PostgreSQL database and tools.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$496.12MKey Investors
AccelFelicisCoatue
2025-10-03Series E· $100M
2025-04-22Series D· $200M
2024-09-25Series C· $80M
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