Platform Engineer: Data

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 5+ years building production services in TypeScript and/or Go
• Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems
• Strong foundations in consistency, fault tolerance, partitioning, consensus, and back pressure
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred)
• Container orchestration experience
• Multi-tenant architecture experience
• API design and data modeling skills
• Networking fundamentals and security best practices
• Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi/Terraform/CDK)
• On-call rotation experience for production systems

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 for all team members
• Tech allowance for home office setup
• 100% health insurance coverage for employees, 80% for dependents
• Annual company off-sites in a new city each year
• Flexible, asynchronous work environment
• Annual professional development allowance

About the Company

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. Born remote and open-source-first, our team of 280+ spans 55+ countries and 20+ languages. We move fast, build in public, and believe deeply in supporting—not replacing—existing tools and communities.