About the role

Platform Software Engineer designing and maintaining distributed systems at Supabase. Working with TypeScript and Go to ensure scalable, reliable platform services.

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.

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.
Nice to have: Experience with Postgres internals, logical replication, or CDC pipelines.
Nice to have: Experience with service meshes, workload identity, or zero-trust networking.
Nice to have: Background in performance engineering and capacity planning.
Nice to have: Open source contributions in systems, databases, or runtime tooling.