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Supabase is seeking a Platform Engineer to join the Edge & Networking squad, responsible for building and operating the network perimeter infrastructure that powers the Supabase Cloud platform. This team owns the API gateway, routing, load balancing, DNS, and secure global traffic distribution systems.
In this role, you will design, build, and operate robust, highly automated systems that enable Supabase to scale reliably while maintaining low latency and high availability across global infrastructure. You'll work closely with infrastructure and product teams to ensure seamless integration, observability, and performance of edge services.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building and maintaining the Supabase Cloud offering
- Designing and implementing Supabase's global edge router platform
- Building programmable, API-driven routing logic to dynamically steer customer traffic
- Working with DNS, WAF, IP networking, TLS termination, CDN integrations, and global load balancing
- Implementing advanced observability including metric and log capturing, latency measurements, traffic shaping, routing health, and failure mitigation
- Optimizing routing performance to minimize latency and improve reliability across cloud regions
- Collaborating cross-functionally to integrate networking solutions into the Supabase stack
- Improving system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security, reliability, and performance
- Designing CI/CD systems to speed up deployments with proper change and release management
- Participating in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews
- Resolving escalated support issues and identifying systemic platform issues
Supabase is a fully remote, globally distributed company with ~400 team members across 60+ countries. The company has raised over $1B in funding (including a $500M Series F) and has 540,000+ community members. All team members receive equity ownership (ESOP), tech allowance, comprehensive health benefits, annual company off-sites, and professional development budgets.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years experience in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure
- 4+ years experience building and operating high-scale networking or edge infrastructure
- Strong experience with HTTP, TCP/IP, TLS certificate management, CDN internals, load balancing, and global routing
- Proficiency with traffic proxies/routers (e.g., Envoy, NGINX, HAProxy, Traefik, or building your own)
- Experience designing systems for high availability, failover, and real-time observability
- Strong software engineering skills in Go
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems
- Knowledge of IPv6, BGP, Anycast, or advanced routing protocols (preferred)
- Experience managing large deployments on AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar
- Comfortable with cloud networking primitives (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi preferred, Terraform/CDK acceptable)
- Experience with on-call rotations for large production systems
