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About the role
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. More than 9 million developers and 250,000+ customers build on Supabase.
Container Engineering (ConEng) owns the internal container platform that runs Supabase's multi-tenant, multi-region services. This managed Kubernetes platform handles cluster lifecycle, capacity, scheduling, isolation, and runtime safety for all other engineering teams.
The role involves making the platform trustworthy, observable, and efficient to operate at scale. You will build automation and platform APIs that allow product teams to run safely by default, instrumenting systems for fast recovery.
What you'll do
- Define SLIs/SLOs and error budgets for the container platform and build gating policies.
- Own the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) process for new platform capabilities.
- Design and track metrics for platform uptime and increase observability across layers.
- Drive the incident-to-improvement pipeline through blameless postmortems and systemic fixes.
- Build and maintain platform automation, controllers, and operators using production code.
- Design and implement platform-side CI/CD and rollout primitives.
- Implement security automation including intrusion detection and patch management.
- Evaluate and evolve the platform's tooling ecosystem including orchestration and networking.
- Improve system architecture to reduce infrastructure costs while balancing security and performance.
- Participate in the team's on-call rota and drive platform incidents to resolution.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years in platform engineering, container platform operations, SRE, or production infrastructure.
- Deep expertise in at least one area: Tooling & Ecosystem, Software Engineering, or Operational/SRE practice.
- Experience operating production systems at scale and carrying on-call responsibilities.
- Proficiency in Go or a comparable systems language to build controllers and platform APIs.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containerd, and the OCI/CRI standards.
- Experience with large-scale multi-tenant systems and isolation primitives.
- Confidence operating on AWS (IAM, VPC) and using infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform, or CDK).
- Ability to communicate clearly with infrastructure specialists and product engineers in async teams.
Nice to have
- Experience building and operating a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform for internal teams.
- Familiarity with policy engines like Kyverno or OPA/Gatekeeper.
- Experience with cost-attribution tooling like OpenCost or Kubecost.
- Experience with managed database platforms or Postgres.
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, or Grafana.
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