Platform Engineer, Managed Postgres

About supabase

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.

About the role

We are seeking a Platform Software Engineer with deep experience in distributed systems to help design, build, and maintain core platform services. You will work primarily in TypeScript and Go to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure systems that power Supabase at massive scale.

What you'll be doing

• 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.

What we're looking for

• Experienced in designing and operating distributed systems, with strong foundations in consistency, fault tolerance, partitioning, consensus, and back pressure.

• Proficient in

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