Platform Engineer, Edge & Networking

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About the role

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.

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.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• 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.

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:

• 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.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Fully Remote

We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.

• ESOP

Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.

• Tech Allowance

Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.

• Health Benefits

Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family’s health are important to us.

• Annual Off-Sites

Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year.

• Flexible Work

We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.

• Professional Development

Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.

• ~400 team members

• 60+ countries

• 20+ languages spoken

• Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)

• 540,000+ community members

We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities.

Source: Supabaseio careers (Ashby)