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Supabase is a Postgres development platform providing a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. The company is fully remote, globally distributed, and has raised over $1B including a $500M Series F.
You will join as a Platform Software Engineer working on core platform services that power Supabase at scale. Your primary focus will be designing, building, and maintaining distributed systems and APIs using TypeScript and Go. You'll lead projects to improve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency across existing systems, build data-intensive workflows and event-driven pipelines, and own service SLIs/SLOs with responsibility for incident response and post-incident reviews.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and implement distributed services and APIs powering the Supabase Platform
- Lead projects improving scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Build data-intensive workflows, background jobs, and event-driven pipelines
- Own service SLIs/SLOs and collaborate on incident response
- Improve system observability with metrics, logging, tracing, and profiling
- Contribute to CI/CD and release processes
- Partner with product teams to deliver features end-to-end
- Write design documents, RFCs, and high-quality tests
The team is ~400 people across 60+ countries, speaking 20+ languages. Supabase was born remote and open-source-first, moving fast and building in public.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years building production services in TypeScript and/or Go (other languages considered)
- Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems with strong foundations in consistency, fault tolerance, partitioning, consensus, and back pressure
- Proficiency in cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and container orchestration
- Familiarity with multi-tenant architectures, API design, and data modeling
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals and security best practices
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi preferred; Terraform/CDK acceptable)
- 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
