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Platform Engineer, Edge & Networking

Remote, Global·Full-time·Added 1 month ago (last checked 26 Oct)

Supabase

44 open roles

Our summary

Work mode
Remote (Global)
Contract
Full-time
Experience
5+ years
Benefits
Private health insurance

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Skills

Nice to have

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • 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.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

  • 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.

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 do

  • 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.

About Supabase

Supabase is an open-source Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform that provides developers with a suite of tools to build applications quickly, including a Postgres database, authentication, instant APIs, edge functions, realtime subscriptions, and storage. The company is a well-known player in the developer tools space, competing with services like Firebase, and has a strong global community of developers and contributors. It is recognized for its developer-friendly approach and its commitment to open-source principles.

Supabase has a significant presence in Spain, with a growing team of engineers and developers based in Madrid. The company is known for its remote-first culture and a strong emphasis on open-source collaboration, making it an attractive option for international professionals looking to work in a modern, distributed environment. Their Spanish office is a key hub for their engineering talent, and they actively hire international candidates for roles in engineering and product development.

Industry
Backend-as-a-Service
Founded
2020
Employees
100–500
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA
In Spain
Madrid

Good to know if you are moving

  • Supabase has a remote-first culture, allowing engineers to work from anywhere, including Spain.
  • The company is a strong advocate for open-source software, which can be appealing for developers who value transparency and community-driven projects.
  • The Spain office is a key engineering hub, offering opportunities to work on core database and backend infrastructure.
  • The company uses a modern tech stack, including TypeScript, Go, and Postgres, which is attractive for engineers looking to work with current technologies.
  • The company has a flat hierarchy and encourages engineers to take ownership of features, which can be a good fit for self-driven professionals.

In their own words

About the company & 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.

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