[Hiring] Platform Engineer @Supabase

Role Description

We are seeking a platform engineer to join our Compute Capacity team. This team owns the capacity plan that keeps compute supply ahead of demand across every region we operate in — the forecasting, buffer policy, and provisioning systems that make sure a project never runs into a wall it didn't know was there.

You'll work on the systems that turn a capacity plan into provisioned reality:

• Reservation acquisition
• Fleet reconciliation
• Automation that keeps what we've committed to in sync with what we're actually running

You'll help build the metrics and alerting that let capacity problems surface months out, on vendor lead time, rather than at the moment someone needs the room.

You'll design, build, and operate systems that are both robust and highly automated — helping us hold the right buffer at the right cost, catch drift before it becomes a shortage, and give every team a single, trustworthy view of how much room we have across the millions of databases we manage.

Qualifications

• 5+ years across infrastructure engineering, SRE, platform, or capacity engineering, ideally at SaaS or cloud infrastructure scale
• Production software engineering experience — you've owned and operated a service, not just a notebook
• Comfortable in modern languages like TypeScript, Python, and Go
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi or Terraform)
• Built or maintained observability for systems you own — metrics that answer real questions and alerting people trust (Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar)
• Solid working knowledge of AWS EC2: instance families and generations, purchase options, capacity reservations, and quota mechanics
• Some financial fluency — you understand reservation economics and the basic tradeoffs between coverage, utilization, and cost
• Ability to communicate clearly across audiences, from engineers to finance stakeholders

Requirements

• Help build and maintain the capacity plan that keeps Supabase's compute supply ahead of demand across regions and instance families
• Support buffer policy by modeling headroom targets and their cost tradeoffs for review and sign-off
• Build and maintain automation that turns the capacity plan into provisioned reality — reservation acquisition and top-up, fleet reconciliation, drift detection between committed and running capacity
• Extend our infrastructure as code for capacity-relevant provisioning
• Instrument capacity: build and maintain metrics for saturation, reservation coverage, idle buffer, forecast error, and provisioning latency
• Build and tune capacity alerting so headroom, quota, and reservation issues surface months out rather than at the moment of impact
• Support the demand gate — helping intake large customer commitments, launches, migrations, and new regions so they reach the plan before they reach the fleet
• Contribute to mitigation projects: right-sizing, instance-family migrations, autoscaling improvements, workload consolidation
• Help drive down compute cost per database through right-sizing, placement, and commitment coverage work
• Participate in capacity incident response and post-incident follow-through

Benefits

• Fully Remote: We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.
• ESOP: Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.
• Tech Allowance: Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
• Health Benefits: Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family’s health are important to us.
• Annual Off-Sites: Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year.
• Flexible Work: We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.
• Professional Development: Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.