Platform Engineer – Compute Capacity

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Supabase

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

☁️ SaaS

🔌 API

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $80M Series B on 2022-05

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

• Build and maintain Supabase’s compute capacity plan across regions and instance families • Model headroom targets and cost tradeoffs to support buffer policy review and sign-off • Build and maintain automation for reservation acquisition, top-up, fleet reconciliation, and drift detection • Extend infrastructure as code for capacity-relevant provisioning • Build and maintain metrics for saturation, reservation coverage, idle buffer, forecast error, and provisioning latency • Build and tune alerting for headroom, quota, and reservation issues • Support the demand gate for customer commitments, launches, migrations, and new regions • Contribute to right-sizing, instance-family migrations, autoscaling improvements, and workload consolidation • Reduce compute cost per database through right-sizing, placement, and commitment coverage • Participate in capacity incident response and post-incident follow-through

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years across infrastructure engineering, SRE, platform, or capacity engineering, ideally at SaaS or cloud infrastructure scale • Production software engineering experience owning and operating a service • Comfortable with TypeScript, Python, and Go • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Pulumi or Terraform • Experience building or maintaining observability, including metrics and trusted alerting; Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar • Solid working knowledge of AWS EC2, including instance families and generations, purchase options, capacity reservations, and quota mechanics • Financial fluency regarding reservation economics and tradeoffs between coverage, utilization, and cost • Clear communication across engineering and finance audiences

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote • WeWork membership or co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world • ESOP (equity ownership) for every team member • Tech allowance for laptop, monitor, headphones, or other work equipment • Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents • Annual company off-site • Flexible, asynchronous work • Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other learning