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Posted May 13

Senior Software Engineer, Compute Functions

Build the Firecracker microVM runtime that runs agentic workloads and edge functions globally

AnywhereAsyncAny country, as long as you like

Supabase hires globally, works asynchronously and has no offices, with a co-working allowance usable anywhere.

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

The role

Supabase is looking for an engineer to build and run its Compute platform, a microVM runtime alongside Edge Functions. You'll work in Rust and TypeScript and join an on-call rotation.

What you'll do

  • 1Architect and build the Supabase Compute platform on Firecracker microVMs
  • 2Add monitoring, alerting and OpenTelemetry tracing to improve latency and reliability
  • 3Contribute upstream to Firecracker, Deno and other open-source projects
  • 4Integrate Compute with Auth, Postgres, Storage and Realtime
  • 5Improve local development and debugging of Compute through the Supabase CLI

What they're looking for

Must-haves

  • 5+ years of backend or systems engineering
  • Strong Rust and TypeScript
  • Experience with Firecracker, V8 Isolates, Deno or similar isolation tech
  • Running infrastructure at scale: Kubernetes, AWS, Cloudflare Workers or Redis
  • Willingness to join an on-call rotation

Nice to have

  • Built developer-facing CLIs or front-end tooling on top of infrastructure products

The company

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Supabase

Remote-first Postgres platform, 60+ countries

Supabase is the open-source Postgres development platform, offering database, auth, storage, edge functions and realtime. It's a born-remote team of about 400 people across 60+ countries.

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