[Hiring] Container Engineer @Supabase

Role Description

Container Engineering (ConEng) owns the internal container platform that runs Supabase's multi-tenant, multi-region services — the managed Kubernetes platform that other engineering teams build and deploy on top of. We own cluster lifecycle and cluster classes, multi-cluster and multi-region topology, capacity, scheduling, isolation and runtime safety, the higher-level platform APIs, the Kubernetes deployment contract and Argo semantics, rollout primitives, and runtime configuration and secret injection.

Your job is to make the platform itself trustworthy, observable, and cheap to operate at scale — and to raise the reliability bar for everyone who depends on it. This is not a gatekeeper role. You'll make the reliable path the easy path: building the automation and platform APIs that let product teams run safely by default, instrumenting what we operate, and making sure that when something breaks we detect it and recover fast.

The work spans three strength areas:

• Tooling & ecosystem: deep knowledge of the container and orchestration landscape (Kubernetes, containerd/OCI, the CNCF ecosystem) and a clear point of view on how to compose it.
• Software engineering: designing and building the platform's automation, controllers, and internal tooling as production code, including solutions that don't come pre-shaped by an existing tool.
• Operational / SRE practice: the discipline (SLOs, error budgets, incident response, ORRs) that runs the platform at scale as a predictable one.

We expect you to be genuinely deep in at least one of these, and many of our strongest candidates are deep in two (usually leaning toward one). Bringing real strength across all three is rare and exceptional — and even then, no one is equally strong in all three at once, so you'd focus where you're most needed at any given time. Different profiles are welcome here; tell us which of these is your center of gravity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform engineering, container/Kubernetes platform operations, SRE, or production infrastructure.
• Genuinely deep in at least one — ideally two — of the three strength areas (Tooling & ecosystem, Software engineering, Operational / SRE practice).
• Experience with large-scale multi-tenant systems and understanding isolation as a spectrum.
• Confident operation on AWS (multiple accounts, IAM, VPC) and comfortable with infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi preferred; Terraform/CDK also fine) and Kubernetes.
• Ability to script and automate to eliminate toil rather than absorb it.
• Clear communication with both infrastructure specialists and product engineers, thriving in async, globally distributed teams.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and iterating toward better systems over time.

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of the container/orchestration landscape: Kubernetes, containerd and the OCI/CRI standards, and the surrounding CNCF ecosystem.
• Ability to write real production code (Go and/or a comparable systems language) and build controllers, operators, and platform APIs.
• Fluency in SLOs, error budgets, and operational KPIs; experience leading incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Experience with security automation for the platform: intrusion detection, automated remediation, and patch management.
• Ability to identify and quantify operational toil, and build the automation that removes it.
• Contribute to the platform's continual testing automation — the test suites and pipelines that validate platform releases.
• Act as a platform reliability and architecture expert — contribute to failure-mode analysis, dependency mapping, and resilience design.
• Evaluate and evolve the platform's tooling ecosystem with a clear, opinionated view on trade-offs.
• Guide teams building on the platform to design sustainable on-call practices for their own services.

Benefits

• Fully Remote: We hire globally and provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
• ESOP: Every team member receives equity ownership in the company.
• Tech Allowance: Budget to set up your ideal work environment.
• Health Benefits: 100% health insurance coverage for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Annual Off-Sites: Company gathers in a new city for a week of connection and collaboration.
• Flexible Work: Operate asynchronously and manage your own time.
• Professional Development: Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.

Company Description

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. More than 9 million developers and 250,000+ customers now build on Supabase.

• ~400 team members
• 60+ countries
• 20+ languages spoken
• Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)
• 540,000+ community members