Release Engineer

ATOM; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

ESOP

Tech Allowance

Health Benefits

Annual Off-Sites

Flexible Work

Professional Development

Job summary

Supabase is seeking a Release Engineer (SRE) to join the Release Engineering team (EngOps). You will ensure deployments are safe, observable, and recoverable at scale, treating pipelines and control planes as production systems with SLOs and on-call ownership.

You'll standardize deployment, instrument what we ship, and enable rapid detection and recovery when failures occur, working across product and platform teams to improve reliability and observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, production operations, platform engineering or release engineering.
• Experience operating production systems at scale and on-call.
• Fluent in SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, DORA metrics, and observability tooling.
• Led incident response and blameless postmortems with tooling like incident.io, PagerDuty or Opsgenie.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability of deployment and release systems with clear SLOs and error budgets.
• Standardize deployment workflows and instrument delivery signals.
• Drive disaster-recovery readiness and reproducible deployments.
• Build and operate health and SLO monitoring for critical user flows.
• Lead on-call activities and convert findings into runbooks and automation.
• Improve deployment observability and auditability across environments.
• Document operational procedures and break-glass paths.

Skills

SRE

Production ops

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Pulumi

Observability

On-call

Incident response

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Alertmanager

incident.io

PagerDuty

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're looking for a Release Engineer (SRE) to join our Release Engineering team (part of EngOps) — a production-operations expert who brings an SRE mindset to how Supabase ships and runs, making deploys safe, observable, and recoverable at scale.

Release Engineering's scope has grown well beyond build-and-ship: we increasingly own the operational reliability of the systems that deploy and run Supabase. In this role you'll treat our deployment pipelines, pre-production signal, and the control plane itself as production systems — with SLOs, error budgets, and on-call ownership — and you'll be the person teams lean on when reliability is on the line.

This is not a "gatekeeper" role. You'll make the reliable path the easy path: standardising how we deploy, instrumenting what we ship, and ensuring that when something breaks, we detect it quickly and recover quickly.

WHAT YOU'LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

In this role, you'll:

• Own the reliability of Supabase's deployment and release systems, and the control plane they run on, against clear SLOs and error budgets
• Turn pre-production into a trustworthy signal — standardizing and instrumenting today's fragmented, ad-hoc deployment workflows
• Drive disaster-recovery readiness, including making environments reproducibly deployable from scratch (untangling undocumented secrets, unclear configuration ownership, and circular service dependencies)
• Build and operate health and SLO monitoring for critical user flows, using synthetic testing to catch regressions before customers do
• Reduce mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-recover for deploy-related incidents — which account for a large share of our incident load
• Participate in on-call, lead blameless postmortems, and turn findings into runbooks, alerting, and automation that remove toil
• Improve deployment observability and auditability — a clear record of what shipped where, when, and by whom
• Document operational procedures — break-glass paths, access models, and runbooks — so reliability knowledge isn't tribal

RELIABILITY & OPERATIONS

• Define and track SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, and DORA delivery metrics — with meaningful alerting over noise
• Ensure deployments fail fast and safely when health checks degrade
• Harden access and break-glass workflows (e.g. scoped self-service) so the right people can act in an incident without unsafe workarounds
• Partner with product engineering and platform teams to align release practices with reliability and availability targets

YOU MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT IF YOU

• Have 5+ years in SRE, production operations, platform engineering, or release engineering
• Have operated production systems at scale and carried on-call for them
• Are fluent in SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, DORA metrics, and operational KPIs — and the observability tooling behind them (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, or similar)
• Have led incident response with tooling like incident.io http://incident.io (or PagerDuty / Opsgenie), run blameless postmortems, and driven down MTTD/MTTR
• Operate confidently on AWS (multiple accounts, IAM, VPC) in production
• Are comfortable with infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform) and Kubernetes
• Script and automate to eliminate toil rather than absorb it
• Communicate clearly with both infrastructure specialists and product engineers
• Thrive in async, globally distributed teams
• Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and iterating toward better systems over time

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

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