Platform Engineer – Compute

Supabase is actively seeking an experienced, high-caliber, and technical Platform Engineer
- Compute with 5+ years of robust cloud infrastructure experience and deep expertise in distributed systems to join our global engineering team on a full-time permanent remote basis worldwide. In this critical cloud infrastructure role, you will be responsible for powering Supabase’s global cloud infrastructure by building and scaling highly available, multi-region compute systems serving millions of PostgreSQL databases. You will leverage your deep specialist expertise in Go, Type Script, custom Kubernetes controllers, and cloud-native architectures to deliver uncompromised system reliability, uptime, and performance.

This opportunity offers competitive compensation including equity ownership, fully remote work flexibility, tech and education allowances, health benefits, and annual company retreats within a premier global open-source database enterprise.

As a Platform Engineer
- Compute at Supabase, you will take full operational, tactical, and technical ownership of multi-region compute systems, scalable Kubernetes clusters, distributed database routing, and infrastructure automation. Your day-to-day responsibilities include designing and maintaining high-availability compute systems, building custom Kubernetes controllers, managing large-scale infrastructure on AWS, ensuring resilient networking across distributed nodes, operating PostgreSQL database infrastructure, and authoring Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi or Terraform.

You will utilize your proactive troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving skills to resolve complex distributed systems bottlenecks under strict enterprise availability standards. Furthermore, you will manage application requirements, ensuring strict compliance with the 5+ years of cloud infrastructure and 3+ years of Kubernetes controller development requirements.

• Design, build, scale, and maintain highly available, multi-region compute systems serving millions of production databases.
• Develop and operate custom Kubernetes controllers, operators, and large-scale enterprise clusters across cloud providers.
• Architect resilient distributed systems, core networking topologies, and low-latency multi-region infrastructure.
• Manage and optimize PostgreSQL database instances, connection pooling, and underlying compute resource allocation.
• Build, maintain, and optimize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployment pipelines using Pulumi or Terraform.
• Participate actively in production on-call rotations, incident response, system triage, and root-cause post-mortem analyses.
• Collaborate cross-functional with security officers, developer experience squads, and core database engineering teams.
• Author meticulous technical documentation, operational runbooks, architecture diagrams, and system reliability standards.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong software engineering skills and coding proficiency in Go and Type Script.
• Minimum of 5+ years of progressive professional experience in cloud infrastructure engineering, including hands-on expertise with AWS.
• Minimum of 3+ years of specialized experience building custom Kubernetes controllers and operating large-scale production clusters.
• Proven practical knowledge of distributed systems architecture, core networking principles, and multi-region infrastructure design.
• Working familiarity with PostgreSQL database administration and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Pulumi or Terraform.
• Demonstrated professional experience with production systems, on-call rotations, and…