Platform Engineer: Edge & Networking

Supabase is an Open Source and fully remote company building developer tools for databases.

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.

As part of the Edge & Networking Squad you will:

• 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.

We offer

• 100% remote work from anywhere in the world. No location-based adjustment to your salary.

• ESOP (equity ownership in the company)

• Autonomous work. We work collaboratively on projects, but you set your own pace.

• Health, Vision and Dental benefits. Supabase covers 100% of the cost for employees and 80% for dependents

• Tech Allowance for any office setup you need

• Annual Education Allowance

• Annually run off-sites.

About the team

• We're a startup. It's unstructured.

• Collectively founded more than 30 startups.

• Globally distributed team with more than 30 different nationalities.

• We deeply believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source. We support existing communities and tools, rather than building "yet another xx".

• We "dogfood" everything. If you use it in your project, we use it in Supabase.

Process

• The entire process is fully remote and all communication will happen over email or via video chat.

• Once you've submitted your application, the team will review your submission and may reach out for a short screening interview over a video call.

• If you pass the screen you will be invited to up to four follow-up interviews.

• The calls:

  • usually take between 20-45 minutes each depending on the interviewer.

  • most of the time, are all 1:1.

  • will be with the founders, a member of either the growth or engineering team (depending on the role) and usually one other person from your immediate team or function.

• Once the interviews are over, the team will meet to discuss several roles and candidates and may:

  • ask one or two follow-up questions over email or a quick call.

  • go directly to making an offer.