Platform Engineer, Managed Postgres

Описание

This Platform Software Engineer role involves designing, building, and maintaining core platform services for the Supabase Postgres development platform, working primarily in TypeScript and Go to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure systems.

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

Requirements

• 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
• Experience with service meshes, workload identity, or zero-trust networking
• Background in performance engineering and capacity planning
• Open source contributions in systems, databases, or runtime tooling

We offer

• Fully Remote, globally, with a WeWork membership or co-working allowance
• ESOP (equity ownership) in the company
• Tech Allowance for work environment setup (laptop, monitor, headphones)
• Health Benefits covering 100% for employees and 80% for dependents
• Annual Off-Sites gathering the entire company in a new city
• Flexible Work, operating asynchronously with trust to manage your own time
• Professional Development with an annual education allowance