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title: 'Platform Engineer, Managed Postgres at Supabase'
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# Platform Engineer, Managed Postgres at Supabase

- **Company:** Supabase
- **Location:** Global
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/9073c0cd-2545-473a-b2ac-63e4615c69b5

## 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 Software Engineer with deep experience in distributed systems to help design, build, and maintain core platform services. You will work primarily in TypeScript and Go to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure systems that power Supabase at massive scale.

What you'll be doing:

- Design and implement distributed services and APIs that power the Supabase Platform.
- Lead projects that improve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency across existing systems.
- Build data-intensive workflows, background jobs, and event-driven pipelines.
- Own service SLIs/SLOs and collaborate on incident response and post-incident reviews.
- Improve system observability with metrics, logging, tracing, and profiling.
- Contribute to our CI/CD and release processes to ship safely and quickly.
- Partner with product teams to deliver features end-to-end, from design docs to production.
- Write clear design documents, RFCs, and high-quality tests.

What we're looking for:

- Experienced in designing and operating distributed systems, with strong foundations in consistency, fault tolerance, partitioning, consensus, and back pressure.
- Proficient in TypeScript and/or Go, ideally with 5+ years building production services in one or both languages (other languages also considered).
- Comfortable with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and container orchestration.
- Familiar with multi-tenant architectures, API design, and data modelling.
- Knowledgeable about networking fundamentals and security best practices.
- Experienced with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi preferred; Terraform/CDK also fine).
- Comfortable participating in on-call rotations for large-scale production systems.

Nice to have:

- Experience with Postgres internals, logical replication, or CDC pipelines.
- Experience with service meshes, workload identity, or zero-trust networking.
- Background in performance engineering and capacity planning.
- Open source contributions in systems, databases, or runtime tooling.

## 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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- [Postgres Deployment Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/postgres-deployment-engineer-supabase-global-dzvgta24mnwr) — Global
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