Platform Engineer – Compute Capacity

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

📋 Description

• Develop and sustain Supabase’s compute capacity planning across various regions and instance families.

• Model headroom targets and evaluate cost trade-offs to facilitate buffer policy assessments and approvals.

• Create and maintain automation for acquiring reservations, top-ups, fleet reconciliation, and drift detection.

• Enhance infrastructure as code for provisioning relevant to capacity.

• Establish and sustain metrics for saturation, reservation coverage, idle buffer, forecast errors, and provisioning latency.

• Design and optimize alerting systems for headroom, quota, and reservation concerns.

• Assist in the demand gate process for customer commitments, launches, migrations, and new regions.

• Contribute to right-sizing initiatives, instance-family migrations, autoscaling enhancements, and workload consolidation.

• Decrease compute costs per database through right-sizing, strategic placement, and commitment coverage.

• Engage in capacity incident response and follow up on post-incident activities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, SRE, platform, or capacity engineering, preferably at SaaS or cloud infrastructure scale.

• Hands-on software engineering experience managing and operating a service.

• Proficiency in TypeScript, Python, and Go.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Pulumi or Terraform.

• Experience in building or maintaining observability systems, including metrics and reliable alerting; knowledge of Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar tools.

• Strong working knowledge of AWS EC2, including instance families and generations, purchasing options, capacity reservations, and quota mechanics.

• Financial acumen regarding reservation economics and the trade-offs between coverage, utilization, and cost.

• Excellent communication skills across engineering and finance teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• WeWork membership or co-working allowance applicable globally.

• Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) for all team members.

• Technology allowance for laptop, monitor, headphones, or other essential work equipment.

• Supabase provides 100% health insurance coverage for employees and 80% for dependents.

• Annual company off-site events.

• Flexible and asynchronous working hours.

• Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other learning opportunities.