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    Platform Engineer, Managed Postgres

    Supabase
    Remote, Global
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    remoteplatform engineerpostgrestypescriptgodistributed systemscloud infrastructureawsinfrastructure as codepulumi

    Requirements

    • •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
    • •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

    What You'll Do

    • •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 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

    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

    Benefits

    • •Fully Remote with WeWork membership or co-working allowance
    • •ESOP (equity ownership) in the company
    • •Tech Allowance for work environment setup
    • •Health Benefits covering 100% of employee and 80% of dependents' health insurance
    • •Annual Off-Sites for company gathering
    • •Flexible Work with asynchronous operation
    • •Professional Development allowance for learning

    About Supabase

    Supabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service platform built on Postgres, giving developers a database, authentication, instant APIs, edge functions, realtime subscriptions, storage, and vector embeddings.

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