Platform Engineer - Compute
Remote, Global · 3+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 13, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote, Global
About the role
- We are seeking a platform engineer to join our Compute team to own critical systems powering project provisioning, scaling, and compute.
- You will work on the core platform ensuring Supabase scales across multiple regions, handles high-volume workloads, and provides low-latency, highly available compute services.
- You'll design, build, and operate robust, highly automated systems to provision new projects reliably at scale and optimize resource utilization.
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
Requirements
- Have strong software engineering skills (Go and Typescript required)
- Experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale
- Have 5+ years experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS required, additional experience with GCP and Azure is a plus) - particularly compute, networking, and storage services
- Have 3+ years experience working with building custom Kubernetes controllers, and operating large-scale (tens-to-hundreds of thousands of pods) clusters
- Are knowledgable about networking and multi-region infrastructure design
- Are familiar with Postgres
- Have experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi highly preferred, Terraform/CDK etc acceptable)
Preferred qualifications
- Additional experience with GCP and Azure is a plus
- Pulumi highly preferred
- Have experience working with QEMU, KVM, and NAS is a plus
- Have experience with being part of on-call rotations for large production system
Benefits
- WeWork membership or co-working allowance
- ESOP (equity ownership)
- Tech Allowance
- Health Benefits covering 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents
- Annual Off-Sites
- Flexible Work
- Professional Development annual education allowance
Workplace
- Fully Remote, Global
Skills
- Go
- TypeScript
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Postgres
- Pulumi
- Terraform
- QEMU
- KVM
- NAS
