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Supabase

Platform Engineer - Compute Capacity

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About this role

Supabase is hiring a Platform Engineer to own compute capacity planning and provisioning systems that ensure their multi-region Postgres infrastructure has sufficient resources ahead of demand. You'll build forecasting, reservation automation, observability, and alerting systems while managing cost tradeoffs across millions of databases.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain capacity planning systems that forecast compute demand across regions and instance families
  • Develop automation for reservation acquisition, fleet reconciliation, and drift detection between planned vs. actual capacity
  • Create and maintain metrics and alerting for saturation, forecast error, and provisioning latency
  • Support buffer policy modeling and help teams understand capacity headroom vs. cost tradeoffs
  • Extend infrastructure-as-code systems for capacity provisioning and management
  • Participate in capacity incidents and drive mitigation projects like right-sizing and workload consolidation

What they're looking for

  • Infrastructure engineering or SRE at scale
  • Production software engineering (TypeScript, Python, or Go)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi or Terraform)
  • Observability and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch)
  • AWS EC2 expertise (instances, reservations, quotas)
  • Capacity and cost forecasting
  • Cross-functional communication with technical and finance teams
  • Financial fluency around compute economics

Benefits

  • Fully remote, work from anywhere globally
  • Equity ownership (ESOP) for all employees
  • Tech allowance for equipment and setup
  • 100% health insurance coverage for employees, 80% for dependents
  • Annual company off-sites
  • CoWorking or WeWork membership allowance
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Supabase

Supabase builds an open-source backend platform built on PostgreSQL, offering managed database services, authentication, and APIs to developers. The company is hiring infrastructure, database, and platform engineers to develop and maintain its core systems, including management APIs, deployment infrastructure, authentication services, and site reliability practices.

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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about a time you owned and operated a service in production—what metrics did you instrument and how did they guide your decisions?
  • Walk us through how you've built capacity planning or forecasting systems; what assumptions proved wrong and how did you adapt?
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