About Supabase
Supabase is a Postgres development platform built by developers for developers. It provides an integrated backend solution that includes Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search.
Responsibilities
•Design and implement distributed services and APIs that power the Supabase Platform
•Lead projects to 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 through 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 documents to production
•Write clear design documents, RFCs, and high-quality tests
Requirements
•Experience designing and operating distributed systems, with strong foundations in consistency, fault tolerance, partitioning, consensus, and back pressure
•Proficiency in TypeScript and/or Go; ideally, 5+ years building production services in one or both languages; other languages are also considered
•Comfort with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration; AWS is preferred
•Familiarity with multi-tenant architectures, API design, and data modelling
•Knowledge of networking fundamentals and security best practices
•Experience with Infrastructure as Code; Pulumi is preferred, while Terraform and CDK are also acceptable
•Comfort participating in on-call rotations for large-scale production systems
Nice to have
•Experience with Postgres internals, logical replication, or CDC pipelines
•Service meshes, workload identity, or zero-trust networking
•Performance engineering and capacity planning
•Open source contributions in systems, databases, or runtime tooling
Benefits
•Global hiring
•WeWork membership or a co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world
•ESOP for every team member
•Tech allowance for work equipment
•Health insurance coverage: 100% for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever they are
•Annual company off-sites in a new city
•Flexible, asynchronous work with autonomy over working time
•Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other learning
