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Platform Engineer - Compute Capacity
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Worldwide
Experience
Senior · 5+ years
Job description
Platform engineer on Supabase's Compute Capacity team, owning the systems that turn capacity plans into provisioned compute across regions. The role builds forecasting, buffer policy, provisioning automation, and capacity observability.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Worldwide
What you'll do
- Help build and maintain the capacity plan that keeps Supabase's compute supply ahead of demand across regions and instance families
- Support buffer policy by modeling headroom targets and their cost tradeoffs for review and sign-off
- Build and maintain automation that turns the capacity plan into provisioned reality — reservation acquisition and top-up, fleet reconciliation, drift detection between committed and running capacity
- Extend our infrastructure as code for capacity-relevant provisioning
- Instrument capacity: build and maintain metrics for saturation, reservation coverage, idle buffer, forecast error, and provisioning latency
- Build and tune capacity alerting so headroom, quota, and reservation issues surface months out rather than at the moment of impact
- Support the demand gate — helping intake large customer commitments, launches, migrations, and new regions so they reach the plan before they reach the fleet
- Contribute to mitigation projects: right-sizing, instance-family migrations, autoscaling improvements, workload consolidation
- Help drive down compute cost per database through right-sizing, placement, and commitment coverage work
- Participate in capacity incident response and post-incident follow-through
What we're looking for
- 5+ years across infrastructure engineering, SRE, platform, or capacity engineering, ideally at SaaS or cloud infrastructure scale
- Production software engineering experience — you've owned and operated a service, not just a notebook
- Comfortable in modern languages like TypeScript, Python, and Go
- Comfortable working against forecasts and assumptions that are incomplete, and can revise your work as those assumptions change
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi or Terraform)
- Have built or maintained observability for systems you own — metrics that answer real questions and alerting people trust (Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar)
- Solid working knowledge of AWS EC2: instance families and generations, purchase options, capacity reservations, and quota mechanics
- Some financial fluency — you understand reservation economics and the basic tradeoffs between coverage, utilization, and cost
- Communicate clearly across audiences, from engineers to finance stakeholders
Your team
Compute Capacity team
Owns the capacity plan that keeps compute supply ahead of demand across every region Supabase operates in — the forecasting, buffer policy, and provisioning systems.
Benefits
- Fully Remote — hire globally, no Supabase offices, WeWork membership or co-working allowance anywhere in the world
- ESOP — every team member receives equity ownership in the company
- Tech Allowance — budget to set up your ideal work environment
- Health Benefits — Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents
- Annual Off-Sites — once a year the entire company gathers in a new city for a week
- Flexible Work — operate asynchronously and manage your own time
- Professional Development — annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences
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About Supabase
The Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers
Supabase provides a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.
Key facts
- ~400 team members
- Postgres development platform / backend cloud services
- 60+ countries
- 20+ languages spoken
- Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)
- 540,000+ community members
- Born-remote and open-source-first
- No Supabase offices
What they value
- Open-source ecosystem support
- Build in public
- Move fast
- Use what we ship
- Globally distributed team