Platform Engineer, Managed Postgres

We are seeking a Platform Software Engineer with deep experience in distributed systems to help design, build, and maintain core platform services. You will work primarily in TypeScript and Go to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure systems that power Supabase at massive scale.

What you’ll be doing:

• 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.
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• 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.

Nice to have:

• 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.

Design, build, and operate distributed platform services and APIs using TypeScript and Go. Improve scalability, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency; develop data-intensive workflows and event-driven pipelines; manage SLIs/SLOs, incident response, CI/CD, and production releases. Partner with product teams on end-to-end delivery, write design documents and tests, and participate in on-call rotations for large-scale systems. The summary above was generated by AI About Supabase

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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.

• ESOP 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.

• Health Benefits 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 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.

About the Team

Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.

• ~400 team members
• 60+ countries
• 20+ languages spoken
• Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)
• 540,000+ community members

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.