Supabase is an Open Source and fully remote company building developer tools for databases.

We are seeking an SRE to manage the infrastructure of our Postgres databases. We currently manage over 1M Postgres instances and are growing fast.

You will:

• Help build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering.

• Improve our system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security, reliability, and performance.

• Work on designing and tracking metrics for platform uptime.

• Increase observability into our system by capturing relevant metrics and logs.

• Implement and maintain intrusion detection, automated remediation and patch management systems.

• Design CI/CD systems to speed up deployments with proper change and release management processes.

• Resolve escalated support issues, while also identifying and resolving systemic issues across the platform.

You are:

• Experience in designing multi-tenant database solutions, designing for failover, fault-tolerance, and disaster recovery;

• 5+ years experience in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure;

• 4+ years of experience in building with Golang and Typescript;

• Experience in managing large deployments on AWS;

• Knowledge of networking;

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi preferred, Terraform/CDK etc also acceptable)

• Experience with being part of on-call rotations for large production systems

We offer

• 100% remote work from anywhere in the world. No location-based adjustment to your salary.

• ESOP (equity ownership in the company)

• Autonomous work. We work collaboratively on projects, but you set your own pace.

• Health, Vision and Dental benefits. Supabase covers 100% of the cost for employees and 80% for dependents

• Tech Allowance for any office setup you need

• Annual Education Allowance

• Annually run off-sites.

 

About the team

• We’re a startup. It’s unstructured.

• Collectively founded more than 30 startups.

• Globally distributed team with more than 30 different nationalities.

• We deeply believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source. We support existing communities and tools, rather than building “yet another xx”.

• We “dogfood” everything. If you use it in your project, we use it in Supabase.

Process

• The entire process is fully remote and all communication will happen over email or via video chat.

• Once you’ve submitted your application, the team will review your submission and may reach out for a short screening interview over a video call.

• If you pass the screen you will be invited to up to four follow-up interviews.

• The calls:

  • usually take between 20-45 minutes each depending on the interviewer.

  • most of the time, are all 1:1.

  • will be with the founders, a member of either the growth or engineering team (depending on the role) and usually one other person from your immediate team or function.

• Once the interviews are over, the team will meet to discuss several roles and candidates and may:

  • ask one or two follow-up questions over email or a quick call.

  • go directly to making an offer.