Platform Engineer - Compute Capacity

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

Have 5+ years across infrastructure engineering, SRE, platform, or capacity engineering, ideally at SaaS or cloud infrastructure scale

Have production software engineering experience — you've owned and operated a service , not just a notebook. Comfortable in modern languages like TypeScript, Python , and Go

Are comfortable working against forecasts and assumptions that are incomplete, and can revise your work as those assumptions change

Have experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi or Terraform)

Have built or maintained observability for systems you own — metrics that answer real questions and alerting people trust (Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar);

Have solid working knowledge of AWS EC2 : instance families and generations, purchase options, capacity reservations, and quota mechanics

Have some financial fluency — you understand reservation economics and the basic tradeoffs between coverage, utilization, and cost

Communicate clearly across audiences, from engineers to finance stakeholders

Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.

~400 team members

60+ countries

20+ languages spoken

Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)

540,000+ community members

We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities.