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Platform Engineer - Compute

Supabase

Remote, Global · Remote · Mid

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What this role is

This role builds the infrastructure systems that power Supabase's cloud platform, managing multi-region compute provisioning, autoscaling, and resource optimization at massive scale. It suits experienced platform engineers who have operated large Kubernetes clusters and cloud infrastructure, and want to work on foundational systems that serve millions of databases.

Our summary, not Supabase’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

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What they ask for

Required

  • Strong software engineering skills in Go and TypeScript
  • Experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale
  • 5+ years with cloud infrastructure, particularly compute, networking, and storage services
  • 3+ years building custom Kubernetes controllers and operating large-scale clusters (tens to hundreds of thousands of pods)
  • Knowledge of networking and multi-region infrastructure design
  • Familiarity with Postgres
  • Experience with on-call rotations for large production systems

Nice to have

  • AWS experience (stated as required, but context suggests it is the primary requirement)
  • Additional cloud provider experience (GCP, Azure)
  • Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Pulumi
  • Experience with QEMU, KVM, and NAS

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