Container Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the internal container platform that supports Supabase’s multi-tenant, multi-region services.

• Participate in the team’s on-call schedule and address platform incidents until resolution and follow-up are complete.

• Establish service level indicators (SLIs), service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and error-budget policies for the container platform.

• Manage the Operational Readiness Review process for new features and significant changes.

• Design and monitor platform uptime metrics while enhancing observability through metrics, logs, and traces.

• Lead blameless postmortems and promote systemic improvements based on incident analysis.

• Develop and sustain automation, controllers, operators, and internal tools as production code.

• Create and execute platform CI/CD and rollout practices.

• Implement and oversee security automation, intrusion detection, remediation, and patch management.

• Assess operational toil and automate its elimination.

• Maintain ongoing testing automation and release-validation pipelines.

• Contribute to failure-mode analysis, dependency mapping, and resilience design efforts.

• Review and enhance orchestration, runtime, networking, isolation, and observability tools.

• Optimize architecture to lower infrastructure costs while ensuring security, reliability, and performance are balanced.

• Advise platform teams on sustainable on-call practices, alert quality, escalation procedures, runbooks, and minimizing noise.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years in platform engineering, container/Kubernetes platform operations, SRE, or production infrastructure.

• Demonstrated experience managing production systems at scale, along with on-call responsibilities.

• In-depth knowledge in at least one, preferably two, of the following areas: tooling/ecosystem, software engineering, and operational/SRE practices.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerd, OCI/CRI standards, and the CNCF ecosystem.

• Production programming experience in Go or a similar systems programming language.

• Capability to create controllers, operators, platform APIs, and internal tools.

• Proficient in SLOs, error budgets, operational KPIs, incident response, and conducting blameless postmortems.

• Experience with large-scale multi-tenant systems and workload isolation.

• Confident in operating AWS, including managing multiple accounts, IAM, and VPC.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code; Pulumi is preferred, while Terraform/CDK is also acceptable.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes.

• Skills in scripting and automation.

• Ability to effectively communicate with infrastructure specialists and product engineers.

• Capability to work efficiently in asynchronous, globally distributed teams.

• Comfort with ambiguity and an iterative approach to enhancing systems.

• Nice to have: experience with multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms.

• Nice to have: familiarity with Kyverno or OPA/Gatekeeper policy engines and OpenCost/Kubecost.

• Nice to have: experience with managed database platforms or Postgres.

• Nice to have: knowledge of OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, or similar observability tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work opportunity.

• WeWork membership or co-working allowance applicable globally.

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) for every team member.

• Tech allowance for purchasing a laptop, monitor, headphones, or other necessary work equipment.

• Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees at 100%.

• Health insurance coverage at 80% for dependents.

• Annual company off-site event.

• Flexible and asynchronous work schedule.

• Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other avenues for professional growth.