Container Engineer
Core
Own the internal container platform (managed Kubernetes) that runs Supabase's multi-tenant, multi-region services, ensuring reliability, observability, and cost-efficiency at scale.
Role type
Senior Platform Engineer (Container/Kubernetes)
Builds
Internal container platform, automation controllers, rollout primitives, and security automation for multi-tenant workloads.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Kubernetes / SRE
Required skills
Kubernetes, Go, SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets), AWS, Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi/Terraform), CI/CD, Observability, Security automation, Multi-tenant architecture
Preferred skills
CNCF ecosystem (Argo, Cilium, Karpenter), Policy engines (Kyverno, OPA), Cost attribution tools, Managed database platforms, OpenTelemetry
Technologies
Kubernetes, containerd, OCI, Go, AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, Argo CD, Cilium, Prometheus, Grafana
Responsibilities
Define SLIs/SLOs and error budgets; Build platform automation, controllers, and operators; Drive incident response and postmortems; Implement security automation and patch management; Evaluate and evolve the tooling ecosystem; Guide teams on sustainable on-call practices.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC