Platform Engineer: Edge & Networking at Supabase
Worldwide
<p>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.</p><p>We are seeking a platform engineer to join our Edge & Networking squad. This team owns everything that happens at the network perimeter: API gateway, routing, load balancing, DNS, and secure global traffic distribution.</p><p>You'll design, build, and operate systems that are both robust and highly automated — enabling us to to scale reliably while maintaining low latency and high availability across our global infrastructure.</p><p>You will work closely with other infrastructure and product teams to ensure seamless integration, observability, and performance of our edge services.</p><p></p><h3>What You’ll Be Responsible for:</h3><ul><li><p>Help build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering;</p></li><li><p>Design and implement Supabase’s global edge router platform;</p></li><li><p>Build programmable, API-driven routing logic to dynamically steer customer traffic;</p></li><li><p>Work with DNS, WAF, IP networking, TLS termination, CDN integrations, and global load balancing;</p></li><li><p>Implement advanced observability: relevant metric and log capturing, latency measurements, traffic shaping, routing health, and failure mitigation.</p></li><li><p>Optimize routing performance to minimize latency and improve reliability across cloud regions.</p></li><li><p>Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to integrate networking solutions into the entire Supabase stack;</p></li><li><p>Improve our system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security, reliability, and performance;</p></li><li><p>Design CI/CD systems to speed up deployments with proper change and release management processes;</p></li><li><p>Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews for edge-related issues;</p></li><li><p>Resolve escalated support issues, while also identifying and resolving systemic issues across the platform.</p></li></ul><h3>You might be a fit if you have:</h3><ul><li><p>5+ years experience in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure;</p></li><li><p>4+ years experience building and operating high-scale networking or edge infrastructure;</p></li><li><p>Strong experience with HTTP, TCP/IP, TLS certificate management, CDN internals, load balancing, and global routing;</p></li><li><p>Proficiency with traffic proxies / routers (e.g., Envoy, NGINX, HAProxy, Traefik, or building your own);</p></li><li><p>Experience designing systems for high availability, failover, and real-time observability;</p></li><li><p>Strong software engineering skills (Go);</p></li><li><p>Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems;</p></li><li><p>Knowledge of IPv6, BGP, Anycast, or advanced routing protocols;</p></li><li><p>Experience in managing large deployments on AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar;</p></li><li><p>Comfortable with cloud networking primitives (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar);</p></li><li><p>Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi preferred, Terraform/CDK etc also acceptable);</p></li><li><p>Experience with being part of on-call rotations for large production systems.</p></li></ul><h3></h3><h3><strong>What We Offer</strong></h3><ul><li><p><strong>Fully Remote</strong></p><p>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.</p></li><li><p><strong>ESOP</strong></p><p>Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.</p></li><li><p><strong>Tech Allowance</strong></p><p>Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.</p></li><li><p><strong>Health Benefits</strong></p><p>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.</p></li><li><p><strong>Annual Off-Sites</strong></p><p>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.</p></li><li><p><strong>Flexible Work</strong></p><p>We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.</p></li><li><p><strong>Professional Development</strong></p><p>Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.</p><p></p></li></ul><h3><strong>About the Team</strong></h3><p>Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.</p><ul><li><p>180+ team members</p></li><li><p>40+ countries</p></li><li><p>15+ languages spoken</p></li><li><p>$496M raised</p></li><li><p>430,000+ community members</p></li><li><p>30,000+ memes posted (and counting)</p></li></ul><p>We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities.</p><p></p><h3><strong>Hiring Process</strong></h3><p>We keep things simple, async-friendly, and respectful of your time:</p><ol><li><p>Apply – Our team will review your application.</p></li><li><p>Intro Call – A short video chat to get to know each other.</p></li><li><p>Interviews – Up to four calls with:</p><ul><li><p>Founders</p></li><li><p>Future teammates</p></li><li><p>Someone cross-functional from product, growth, or engineering (depending on the role)</p></li></ul></li><li><p>Decision – We may follow up with a final question or go straight to offer.</p></li></ol><p>All communication is remote and we aim to move fast.</p>
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