Platform Engineer - Compute
Core
Design, build, and operate the core platform systems that power project provisioning, scaling, and compute services for Supabase, ensuring high availability and low latency across multiple regions.
Role type
Senior IC platform engineer (compute infrastructure)
Builds
Supabase Cloud compute offering, multi-region project provisioning and scaling systems
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, compute orchestration
Required skills
Go, TypeScript, cloud infrastructure (AWS), Kubernetes controllers, networking, Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi/Terraform), Postgres
Preferred skills
GCP, Azure, QEMU, KVM, NAS, on-call rotations for large production systems
Technologies
Go, TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Terraform, CDK, Postgres, QEMU, KVM, NAS
Responsibilities
Design and implement systems to provision, scale, and manage multi-region compute workloads; Own the full lifecycle of compute orchestration including project creation, warm pools, autoscaling, and resizing; Improve automation and observability across the compute stack; Collaborate cross-functionally to leverage compute as a core platform offering; Participate in on-call rotations and incident response; Resolve escalated support issues and identify systemic platform issues.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
