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.

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

Platform Engineer, Data

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