Platform Engineer: Kubernetes Engineering

About the Role

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. We are seeking a platform engineer to join our Compute & Scaling squad. This team owns the critical systems that power project provisioning, scaling, and the compute that our users rely on every day. You’ll work on the core platform that ensures Supabase can seamlessly scale across multiple regions, handle high-volume workloads, and provide low- latency, highly available compute services. You'll design, build, and operate systems that are both robust and highly automated — enabling us to provision new projects reliably at scale, optimize resource utilization, and deliver a seamless experience to the 5M databases which we manage.

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

• Strong software engineering skills (Go and Typescript required)
• 3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale
• 5+ years experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS required, additional experience with GCP and Azure is a plus) - particularly compute, networking, and storage services
• 3+ years experience working with building custom Kubernetes controllers, and operating large-scale (tens-to-hundreds of thousands of pods) clusters
• Knowledge of networking and multi-region infrastructure design
• Familiarity with Postgres
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi highly preferred, Terraform/CDK etc acceptable)
• Experience working with QEMU, KVM, and NAS is a plus
• Experience with being part of on-call rotations for large production systems