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.
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 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
Skills
• 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
Benefits
• 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.
Company Overview
• 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.
Company H1B Sponsorship
• 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.