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    Platform Engineer - Compute Capacity

    Supabase
    Remote, Global
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    remoteplatform engineeringcapacity planningAWS EC2infrastructure as codeobservabilitySREcloud infrastructure

    Requirements

    • •5+ years across infrastructure engineering, SRE, platform, or capacity engineering, ideally at SaaS or cloud infrastructure scale
    • •Production software engineering experience — owned and operated a service, not just a notebook
    • •Comfortable in modern languages like TypeScript, Python, and Go
    • •Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi or Terraform)
    • •Built or maintained observability for systems you own — metrics and alerting (Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar)
    • •Solid working knowledge of AWS EC2: instance families and generations, purchase options, capacity reservations, and quota mechanics
    • •Some financial fluency — understand reservation economics and tradeoffs between coverage, utilization, and cost
    • •Communicate clearly across audiences, from engineers to finance stakeholders

    What You'll Do

    • •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

    Benefits

    • •Fully Remote with WeWork membership or co-working allowance
    • •ESOP (equity ownership)
    • •Tech Allowance for work environment setup
    • •Health Benefits covering 100% employee and 80% dependents health insurance
    • •Annual Off-Sites for company gathering
    • •Flexible Work with asynchronous operation
    • •Professional Development allowance for education

    About Supabase

    Supabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service platform built on Postgres, giving developers a database, authentication, instant APIs, edge functions, realtime subscriptions, storage, and vector embeddings.

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