Platform Engineer, Managed Postgres
Remote, Global · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 9, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote, Global
About Supabase
- Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.
About the role
- Supabase is 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Write clear design documents, RFCs, and high-quality tests.
Requirements
- 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.
Preferred qualifications
- 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.
Benefits
- ESOP (equity ownership)
- Tech Allowance
- Health Benefits (Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents)
- Annual Off-Sites
- Flexible Work
- Professional Development (annual education allowance)
- WeWork membership or co-working allowance
Workplace
- Fully Remote, hire globally
Skills
- TypeScript
- Go
- AWS
- Pulumi
- Terraform
- CDK
- Postgres
