Platform Engineer, Managed Postgres

Supabase; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

ESOP

Tech Allowance

Health Benefits

Annual Off-Sites

Flexible Work

Professional Development

Job summary

Supabase seeks a Platform Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain core platform services. You’ll work mainly in TypeScript and Go to deliver reliable, scalable systems powering Supabase at scale.

You’ll design distributed services, own SLIs/SLOs, and contribute to observability, CI/CD, and incident reviews, while collaborating with product teams on end-to-end features.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems with strong fault tolerance and consistency.
• Proficient in TypeScript and/or Go with production service experience.
• Comfortable with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and container orchestration.
• Familiar with multi-tenant architectures, API design and data modelling.
• Knowledgeable in networking fundamentals and security best practices.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi preferred; Terraform/CDK also fine).
• Comfortable on-call rotations for large-scale production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed services and APIs powering the Supabase Platform.
• Lead projects to improve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Build data-intensive workflows, background jobs, and event-driven pipelines.
• Own service SLIs/SLOs and participate in incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Improve observability with metrics, logs, traces, and profiling.
• Contribute to CI/CD and release processes for safe, rapid shipping.
• Collaborate with product teams to deliver end-to-end features from design to production.
• Write clear design docs, RFCs, and high-quality tests.

Skills

Distributed systems

TypeScript

Go

AWS

Container orchestration

Multi-tenant architecture

API design

Data modelling

Networking fundamentals

Security best practices

Infrastructure as Code

Pulumi

Terraform

On-call rotations

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

Job description

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

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.

What We Offer

• Fully Remote

  We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.

• ESOP

  Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.

• Tech Allowance

  Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.

• Health Benefits

  Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family’s health are important to us.

• Annual Off-Sites

  Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year.

• Flexible Work

  We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.

• Professional Development

  Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.

About the Team

Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.

• ~400 team members

• 60+ countries

• 20+ languages spoken

• Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)

• 540,000+ community members

We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities.