Senior backend engineer building Affirm’s AI platform infrastructure for scalable financial services. Developing governed gateways, runtimes, and evaluation systems across millions of transactions.
About the role
- Software Engineer improving Supabase’s scalable Postgres storage platform across APIs, CDNs, infrastructure, and developer tools. Building reliable uploads, asset optimization, and storage experiences for millions of developers.
Responsibilities
- Improve the analytics bucket offering and storage of open file formats such as iceberg and ducklake
- Optimize assets to speed delivery for websites and mobile applications
- Build out the edge network to speed uploads and implement automatic cache invalidation
- Improve the performance, observability, and reliability of the storage server
- Collaborate with the frontend team to build a fast, powerful storage explorer
- Improve APIs, client libraries, and CLI for an exceptional end-to-end developer experience
- Resolve escalated support issues and identify and resolve systemic platform issues
- Work across client libraries, CLI, CDN, storage server, and deployment infrastructure
- Contribute to the open-source server and upstream dependencies such as the TUS server
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience running Node.js in production
- Experience with highly scalable, distributed systems
- Backend application development experience and infrastructure experience deploying, monitoring, and scaling services
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Performance tuning experience
- Production-grade PostgreSQL usage, including tuning and troubleshooting
- Ability to drive projects end-to-end
- Prior experience working on developer tools (nice to have)
- Knowledge of AWS, GCP, or Azure and containerization with Docker and Kubernetes (nice to have)
- Experience designing and operating large-scale file upload/download pipelines (nice to have)
- CDN integration and optimization knowledge (nice to have)
- Experience with image and video processing tools, formats, and codecs (nice to have)
- Experience with frontend technologies such as Next.js and React (nice to have)
Benefits
- Fully remote work
- WeWork membership or co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world
- ESOP (equity ownership) for every team member
- Tech allowance for laptop, monitor, headphones, or other work equipment
- 100% health insurance coverage for employees
- 80% health insurance coverage for dependents
- Annual company off-sites
- Flexible, asynchronous work
- Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other learning
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