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title: 'Platform Engineer - Compute Capacity at Supabase'
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# Platform Engineer - Compute Capacity at Supabase

- **Company:** Supabase
- **Location:** Global
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/4eb14408-51e6-4c58-812a-3782d5c0b045

## Job description

## ABOUT SUPABASE

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.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking a platform engineer to join our Compute Capacity team. This team owns the capacity plan that keeps compute supply ahead of demand across every region we operate in — the forecasting, buffer policy, and provisioning systems that make sure a project never runs into a wall it didn't know was there.

You'll work on the systems that turn a capacity plan into provisioned reality: reservation acquisition, fleet reconciliation, and the automation that keeps what we've committed to in sync with what we're actually running. You'll help build the metrics and alerting that let capacity problems surface months out, on vendor lead time, rather than at the moment someone needs the room.

You'll design, build, and operate systems that are both robust and highly automated — helping us hold the right buffer at the right cost, catch drift before it becomes a shortage, and give every team a single, trustworthy view of how much room we have across the millions of databases we manage.

## WHAT YOU'LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

- Help build and maintain the capacity plan that keeps Supabase's compute supply ahead of demand across regions and instance families
- Support buffer policy by modeling headroom targets and their cost tradeoffs for review and sign-off
- Build and maintain automation that turns the capacity plan into provisioned reality — reservation acquisition and top-up, fleet reconciliation, drift detection between committed and running capacity
- Extend our infrastructure as code for capacity-relevant provisioning
- Instrument capacity: build and maintain metrics for saturation, reservation coverage, idle buffer, forecast error, and provisioning latency
- Build and tune capacity alerting so headroom, quota, and reservation issues surface months out rather than at the moment of impact
- Support the demand gate — helping intake large customer commitments, launches, migrations, and new regions so they reach the plan before they reach the fleet
- Contribute to mitigation projects: right-sizing, instance-family migrations, autoscaling improvements, workload consolidation
- Help drive down compute cost per database through right-sizing, placement, and commitment coverage work
- Participate in capacity incident response and post-incident follow-through

YOU MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT IF YOU

- Have 5+ years across infrastructure engineering, SRE, platform, or capacity engineering, ideally at SaaS or cloud infrastructure scale
- Have production software engineering experience — you've owned and operated a service, not just a notebook. Comfortable in modern languages like TypeScript, Python, and Go
- Are comfortable working against forecasts and assumptions that are incomplete, and can revise your work as those assumptions change
- Have experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi or Terraform)
- Have built or maintained observability for systems you own — metrics that answer real questions and alerting people trust (Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar);
- Have solid working knowledge of AWS EC2: instance families and generations, purchase options, capacity reservations, and quota mechanics
- Have some financial fluency — you understand reservation economics and the basic tradeoffs between coverage, utilization, and cost
- Communicate clearly across audiences, from engineers to finance stakeholders

## WHAT WE OFFER

- 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.

## ABOUT THE 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.

## About Supabase

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative built on Postgres, providing a complete backend platform with database, authentication, storage, edge functions, and realtime capabilities.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E – $100M raised in November 2025)
- **Headquarters**: United States (remote-first; no physical offices)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed (co-founders are often referenced as Paul Copplestone and others, but names not confirmed in provided sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Developer tools / Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) / Database infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily developers, startups, and mid-market companies building web and mobile applications; also serves enterprises through self-hosted options
- **Mission**: Provide an open-source, portable alternative to proprietary backend services, enabling developers to “Build in a weekend. Scale to millions.”

## Products & Services
- **Database**: Fully managed Postgres database with auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs, Table Editor, SQL Editor, and 40+ extensions. Every project is a dedicated Postgres database.
- **Auth**: Authentication and user management with 20+ social login providers, email/password, phone/OTP, magic links, and Row Level Security via Postgres.
- **Storage**: S3-compatible object storage with global CDN (285+ cities), image transformations, and three bucket types (files, analytics, vector).
- **Edge Functions**: Globally distributed TypeScript/Deno serverless functions with Node.js compatibility and built-in observability.
- **Realtime**: WebSocket-based realtime sync with database change listeners, presence, and broadcast capabilities.
- **Vector**: AI toolkit using pgvector for storing, indexing, and querying vector embeddings alongside transactional data.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (implied from funding rounds; estimated in the range of $1B+ based on series size)
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Total Funding**: $496.25M (across 8 rounds; Series C in Sep 2024 of $80M, Series E in Nov 2025 of $100M)
  - **Annual Revenue**: Estimated $28M (according to LinkedIn; not officially confirmed by company)
  - **Headcount**: 350+ team members (as of mid-2025; grew ~173% YoY)
  - **Revenue Growth**: 1,300% increase reported in a 2-month period (from company blog)
  - **Community**: 540,000+ community members, 40,000+ memes posted (per careers page)
- **Notable Investors**: Peak XV Partners, Craft Ventures, Accel, Coatue (led various rounds)
- **Recent Milestones**: Acquired OrioleDB (April 2024); expanded to 16+ global regions; SOC2 Type 2 compliant

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source core**: All major tools are open source and self-hostable, reducing vendor lock-in.
- **Postgres foundation**: Industry-standard database with full portability – users can export data and run their own Postgres instance.
- **Integrated platform**: Auth, database, storage, functions, and realtime work seamlessly out-of-the-box, eliminating the need to stitch together multiple services.
- **Strong community and ecosystem**: 540K+ community members, extensive documentation, and a large library of extensions.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scalability and performance**: Expanding global region presence and improving database density (grew deployed databases 3.5x in a short period).
- **AI and vector capabilities**: Investment in pgvector and AI toolkit to meet growing demand for embedding and semantic search.
- **Enterprise readiness**: SOC2 Type 2 compliance, partnership expansions (AWS Partnership lead hiring), and solutions architect roles signal push into larger accounts.
- **Open-source collaboration**: Continued investment in community-driven development and transparency.

## Why Work Here
- **Fully remote**: No offices – work from anywhere; asynchronous culture with tools like Notion, Slack, and Discord.
- **Global, diverse team**: 350+ members in 60+ countries, speaking 20+ languages.
- **Benefits**: 100% health coverage for employees, 80% for dependants; annual professional development allowance; co-working membership stipend; tech allowance.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasizes shipping fast, open-source collaboration, and deep technical ownership. Roles span: Postgres Engineers, Edge Functions, Auth, SDK, Infrastructure, and more.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapidly scaling (revenue up 1,300%, headcount up 173% YoY) – high impact environment for early-stage employees.
- **Open source ethos**: Work directly with the community; contributor to Postgres ecosystem.

## Sources
1. [Supabase Homepage](https://supabase.com/)
2. [Supabase Careers](https://supabase.com/careers)
3. [Supabase Job Board](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase)
4. [Who We Hire Blog](https://supabase.com/blog/who-we-hire)
5. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/supabase)

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