Platform Engineer – Edge & Networking

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

📋 Description

• Contribute to the creation and upkeep of the Supabase Cloud service.

• Design and execute the global edge router platform for Supabase.

• Develop programmable, API-driven routing logic to dynamically direct customer traffic.

• Engage with DNS, WAF, IP networking, TLS termination, CDN integrations, and global load balancing.

• Establish observability through metrics, logs, latency measurements, traffic shaping, routing health monitoring, and failure mitigation.

• Enhance routing performance to minimize latency and boost reliability across cloud regions.

• Collaborate with infrastructure and product teams to incorporate networking solutions into the Supabase architecture.

• Refine system architecture to lower costs while maintaining security, reliability, and performance.

• Design CI/CD systems along with change and release management processes.

• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews for edge-related challenges.

• Address escalated support queries and identify and resolve systemic platform challenges.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure.

• More than 4 years of experience in building and managing high-scale networking or edge infrastructure.

• Extensive knowledge of HTTP, TCP/IP, TLS certificate management, CDN internals, load balancing, and global routing.

• Proficient in using traffic proxies/routers such as Envoy, NGINX, HAProxy, Traefik, or similar self-developed systems.

• Experience in designing systems for high availability, failover, and real-time observability.

• Strong software engineering capabilities in Go.

• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills in distributed systems.

• Familiarity with IPv6, BGP, Anycast, or advanced routing protocols.

• Experience managing large deployments on AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar platforms.

• Comfortable with cloud networking primitives on AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar services.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools; Pulumi preferred, Terraform/CDK and others are acceptable.

• Experience participating in on-call rotations for large-scale production systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• WeWork membership or co-working allowance applicable worldwide.

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) for all team members.

• Tech allowance for laptop, monitor, headphones, or other work-related equipment.

• Health insurance with 100% coverage for employees and 80% for dependents.

• Annual company retreats.

• Flexible, asynchronous working hours.

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