Platform Engineer - Compute Capacity
Supabase · Engineering · Senior · 19d ago
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Anyone, anywhere in the world can apply.
“We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere.”
Distributed across 60+ countries with no physical offices.
- Async-first
- Supabase operates asynchronously and trusts employees to manage their own time.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- Offers a global WeWork or co-working allowance and a tech setup allowance.
- Annual retreat
- The entire company gathers once a year in a new city for a week-long off-site.
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About the role
As a platform engineer on the Compute Capacity team, you will design and operate the systems that keep compute supply ahead of demand across all operating regions. You will build automation for reservation acquisition, fleet reconciliation, and drift detection between committed and running capacity. Working with infrastructure as code and observability tooling, you will build metrics and alerting to surface capacity bottlenecks months ahead of time while optimizing compute cost per database.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain the capacity plan and buffer policies across regions and instance families.
- Build automation for reservation acquisition, fleet reconciliation, and drift detection.
- Extend infrastructure as code (Pulumi/Terraform) for capacity-relevant provisioning.
- Instrument capacity metrics covering saturation, idle buffer, forecast error, and provisioning latency.
- Tune capacity alerting to identify headroom, quota, and reservation issues well in advance.
- Drive compute cost efficiency and participate in capacity incident response.
What you bring
- 5+ years of experience across infrastructure engineering, SRE, platform, or capacity engineering at cloud scale.
- Production software engineering experience in modern languages such as TypeScript, Python, or Go.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi or Terraform.
- Solid working knowledge of AWS EC2 instance families, reservations, purchase options, and quotas.
- Experience building observability and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar tools.
- Familiarity with reservation economics and cost-tradeoff modeling.
About Supabase
Supabase is an open-source Postgres development platform providing databases, auth, storage, edge functions, and realtime services to developers worldwide.
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