Site Reliability Engineer

• Have 7+ years of experience in SRE, production engineering, or reliability-focused roles, including experience shaping SRE practices and driving adoption across engineering teams

• Have hands-on experience defining and operationalizing SLOs/SLIs at scale, including error budget policies that actually influenced engineering decisions

• Have deep experience with incident response, postmortem facilitation, and turning incident learnings into systemic improvements

• Experience with Kubernetes-based platform operations

• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, or similar observability tooling

• Experience building developer-facing reliability tooling (SLO dashboards, ORR frameworks, toil tracking, DORA metrics)

• 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.

Supabase manages millions of Postgres instances and is growing. We have strong teams across observability, release engineering, and incident management - and we're concentrating our reliability efforts into a dedicated SRE practice that ties the discipline together across the platform.

You'll be embedded within Service Operations, and your primary job is to make every engineering team more reliable - not by owning their infrastructure, but by establishing the practices, frameworks, and feedback loops that let them own reliability themselves. You'll work across the org: sometimes setting the standard, sometimes pair-programming a fix, sometimes helping a team define their error budget, sometimes telling them it's exhausted.

This role is ideal for someone who has a strong vision for how SRE should work and thrives in async, fast-paced environments where influence matters more than authority.

• Partner with service teams to define meaningful SLIs and SLOs grounded in customer experience, and build the error budget policies that turn them into engineering decisions

• Own and evolve the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) process - conducting reviews for new services and major changes across observability, alerting, runbooks, capacity, and graceful degradation

• Strengthen the incident-to-improvement pipeline: connecting postmortem findings to operational readiness gaps, identifying repeat failure patterns, and driving systemic fixes

• Act as the reliability expert teams pull in for architecture reviews, failure mode analysis, dependency mapping, and resilience design

• Identify and quantify operational toil across the org, and build or advocate for automation that eliminates it

• Help teams design sustainable on-call practices: alert quality, escalation paths, runbook coverage, and noise reduction

• Track and report on org-wide operational maturity, surfacing systemic gaps and driving remediation

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.

• Have a software engineering mindset - you write code and build tools, not just configure them

• Have worked with large-scale multi-tenant systems (bonus: managed database platforms or Postgres)

• Are proficient with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi preferred, Terraform/CDK also acceptable)

• Communicate clearly and persuasively - this role requires influencing without authority across a distributed org

• Have experience in async or globally distributed teams

• Are energized by making other teams more effective rather than being the one who fixes everything