Platform Engineer: Data (Remote)

Freelancing; Malaysia; Remote; MYR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic software firm based in Malaysia is seeking a Platform Software Engineer to join their team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in distributed systems and proficiency in TypeScript and Go, with over 5 years of experience. Responsibilities include designing and implementing services and APIs, leading scalability projects, and enhancing system observability. This position offers the opportunity to work on large-scale systems and collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience building production services in TypeScript or Go.
• Strong foundations in distributed systems consisting of design and operations.
• Familiar with multi-tenant architectures, API design, and data modelling.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed services and APIs for the Supabase Platform.
• Lead projects to improve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate on incident response and post-incident reviews.

Skills

Distributed systems design

TypeScript

Go

Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

Containers orchestration

Job description

We are 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.

What you’ll be doing:

• 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.

What we’re looking for:

• 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.

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.