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Supabase

Posted Sep 2

Platform Engineer, Compute Capacity

Keep compute supply ahead of demand across millions of Postgres databases

AnywhereAsyncAny country, as long as you like

Listed as remote and global, with an async team spread across more than 60 countries.

How long can you stay where you're going?
    Workspace budget
  • Equity (ESOP)
  • Annual company off-sites
  • Education allowance

The role

Supabase's Compute Capacity team needs a platform engineer to turn the capacity plan into provisioned reality across regions. You'll build the automation, metrics and alerting that surface shortages months out.

What you'll do

  • 1Build automation for reservation acquisition, top-up and fleet reconciliation
  • 2Detect drift between committed and running capacity
  • 3Build capacity metrics and alerting that flag problems months ahead
  • 4Model headroom targets and their cost tradeoffs for review
  • 5Cut compute cost per database through right-sizing and commitment coverage

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years in infrastructure, SRE, platform or capacity engineering
  • Production software experience in TypeScript, Python or Go
  • Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi or Terraform
  • Observability experience, such as Prometheus/Grafana or CloudWatch
  • Solid AWS EC2 knowledge: reservations, purchase options and quotas

The company

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Supabase

Born-remote open-source Postgres platform

Supabase is the open-source Postgres development platform, offering database, auth, storage, edge functions, realtime and vector search. It has about 400 people in 60+ countries and has raised over $1B.

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