Supabase
SaaS • API • Artificial Intelligence
Supabase is an open source alternative to Firebase, providing a range of backend tools designed to help developers start and scale their applications effectively. It offers features such as a full Postgres database, authentication with Row Level Security, instant APIs, Edge Functions for custom code, real-time data synchronization, and storage for large files. Developers can integrate machine learning models, utilize RESTful APIs, and take advantage of platform-integrated best of breed products. Supabase is designed to be highly portable, extendable, and user-friendly, making it a powerful choice for startups and enterprises looking to innovate quickly and efficiently.
Platform Engineer - Edge & Networking
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July 4
Supabase
SaaS • API • Artificial Intelligence
Supabase is an open source alternative to Firebase, providing a range of backend tools designed to help developers start and scale their applications effectively. It offers features such as a full Postgres database, authentication with Row Level Security, instant APIs, Edge Functions for custom code, real-time data synchronization, and storage for large files. Developers can integrate machine learning models, utilize RESTful APIs, and take advantage of platform-integrated best of breed products. Supabase is designed to be highly portable, extendable, and user-friendly, making it a powerful choice for startups and enterprises looking to innovate quickly and efficiently.
📋 Description
• Supabase is an Open Source and fully remote company building developer tools for databases. • 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. • 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. • You will work closely with other infrastructure and product teams to ensure seamless integration, observability, and performance of our edge services. • Help build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering; • Design and implement Supabase’s global edge router platform; • Build programmable, API-driven routing logic to dynamically steer customer traffic; • Work with DNS, WAF, IP networking, TLS termination, CDN integrations, and global load balancing; • Implement advanced observability: relevant metric and log capturing, latency measurements, traffic shaping, routing health, and failure mitigation. • Optimize routing performance to minimize latency and improve reliability across cloud regions. • Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to integrate networking solutions into the entire Supabase stack; • Improve our system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security, reliability, and performance; • Design CI/CD systems to speed up deployments with proper change and release management processes; • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews for edge-related issues; • Resolve escalated support issues, while also identifying and resolving systemic issues across the platform.
🎯 Requirements
• 5+ years experience in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure; • 4+ years experience building and operating high-scale networking or edge infrastructure; • Strong experience with HTTP, TCP/IP, TLS certificate management, CDN internals, load balancing, and global routing; • Proficiency with traffic proxies / routers (e.g., Envoy, NGINX, HAProxy, Traefik, or building your own); • Experience designing systems for high availability, failover, and real-time observability; • Strong software engineering skills (Go); • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems; • Knowledge of IPv6, BGP, Anycast, or advanced routing protocols; • Experience in managing large deployments on AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar; • Comfortable with cloud networking primitives (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar); • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi preferred, Terraform/CDK etc also acceptable); • Experience with being part of on-call rotations for large production systems.
🏖️ Benefits
• 100% remote work from anywhere in the world. No location-based adjustment to your salary. • ESOP (equity ownership in the company) • Autonomous work. We work collaboratively on projects, but you set your own pace. • Health, Vision and Dental benefits. Supabase covers 100% of the cost for employees and 80% for dependents • Tech Allowance for any office setup you need • Annual Education Allowance • Annually run off-sites.
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