Release Engineer

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. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability of Supabase's deployment and release systems and the control plane
• Turn pre-production into a trustworthy signal by standardizing deployment workflows
• Drive disaster-recovery readiness and environment reproducibility
• Build and operate health and SLO monitoring using synthetic testing
• Reduce mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) and mean-time-to-recover (MTTR) for deploy-related incidents
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead blameless postmortems
• Improve deployment observability, auditability, and documentation
• Define and track SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, and DORA delivery metrics
• Partner with product engineering and platform teams to align release practices

Requirements

• 5+ years in SRE, production operations, platform engineering, or release engineering
• Experience operating production systems at scale with on-call responsibility
• Fluency in SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, DORA metrics, and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Experience leading incident response and running blameless postmortems
• Proficiency with AWS (IAM, VPC, multi-account environments)
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi, Terraform) and Kubernetes
• Strong scripting and automation skills to eliminate toil
• Ability to thrive in async, globally distributed teams

Benefits

• Fully Remote work with WeWork membership or co-working allowance
• ESOP (equity ownership)
• Tech Allowance for home office setup
• 100% covered health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents
• Annual company off-sites
• Flexible work and asynchronous operations
• Annual professional development/education allowance