Supabase
Platform Engineer, Edge & Networking
About this role
Supabase is hiring a Platform Engineer to design and operate the edge networking infrastructure that powers its global Postgres platform. You'll own API gateways, routing, load balancing, DNS, and traffic distribution while collaborating with infrastructure and product teams to ensure low-latency, highly available services at scale.
What you'll do
- Design and implement Supabase's global edge router platform with programmable, API-driven routing logic
- Build and maintain DNS, WAF, TLS termination, CDN integrations, and global load balancing systems
- Implement advanced observability including metrics, logs, latency measurements, and failure mitigation
- Optimize routing performance to minimize latency and improve reliability across cloud regions
- Design CI/CD systems with proper change and release management for edge deployments
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews for edge-related issues
What they're looking for
- SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure (5+ years)
- High-scale networking and edge infrastructure (4+ years)
- HTTP, TCP/IP, TLS, CDN, load balancing, and global routing protocols
- Traffic proxies/routers (Envoy, NGINX, HAProxy, Traefik)
- Go programming language
- Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi, Terraform, CDK)
- Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Distributed systems debugging and troubleshooting
Benefits
- Fully remote, global hiring with WeWork or co-working allowance
- ESOP (equity ownership) for all team members
- 100% health insurance coverage for employees, 80% for dependents
- Annual tech allowance for work environment setup
- Annual company off-sites in new cities
- Professional development budget and flexible work arrangements
Opens the application — the Jobs AI extension fills it for you. Set up autofill
Opens the official application on the employer’s site. No login required.
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.
View all jobs at SupabaseLikely interview questions
- Walk us through your experience designing and operating edge or CDN infrastructure at scale—what were the key challenges?
- Describe a complex routing or traffic management problem you solved. How did you approach it and what was the outcome?