[Remote] Platform Engineer: Data

🌍 Remote, USA 🚀 Full-time 🕐 Posted Recently

Job Description

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. They are seeking a Platform Software Engineer with deep experience in distributed systems to design, build, and maintain core platform services, primarily using TypeScript and Go.

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 our 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

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 (other languages also considered)
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
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

We provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.
Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company.
Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are.
Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun.
We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time.
Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.

Supabase offers an open source backend platform for app development built around a managed PostgreSQL database and tools. It was founded in 2020, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://supabase.com.

Supabase has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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