Platform Engineer - Compute Capacity
Supabase · Remote · Remote, Global ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote worldwide
- Platform Engineering
- AWS EC2 expertise
- TypeScript, Python, Go
- Equity ownership (ESOP)
Join the Compute Capacity team at Supabase, where you will own the systems that keep compute supply ahead of demand. You will build automation to turn capacity plans into provisioned reality, ensuring projects never face unexpected resource limits. Your work will focus on forecasting, buffer policy, and maintaining a trustworthy view of available room across millions of databases.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain capacity plans to keep supply ahead of demand across regions
- Model headroom targets and cost tradeoffs for buffer policy review
- Create automation for reservation acquisition, top-ups, and fleet reconciliation
- Extend infrastructure as code for capacity-relevant provisioning tasks
- Build metrics for saturation, reservation coverage, and forecast error
- Tune alerting to surface headroom and quota issues months in advance
- Support demand gate for large customer commitments and new region launches
- Contribute to right-sizing, instance migrations, and workload consolidation
- Participate in capacity incident response and post-incident analysis
What you'll need
- 5+ years in infrastructure engineering, SRE, or platform roles at scale
- Production software engineering experience with owned services
- Proficiency in modern languages like TypeScript, Python, or Go
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi or Terraform
- Solid working knowledge of AWS EC2 instance families and mechanics
- Ability to build trusted observability with Prometheus, Grafana, or similar
- Understanding of reservation economics and cost utilization tradeoffs
- Clear communication skills for engineering and finance stakeholders
Stack
- TypeScript
- Python
- Go
- Pulumi
- Terraform
- AWS EC2
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- CloudWatch
How you'll work
- Fully remote with no physical offices
- Asynchronous work culture with flexible time management
- WeWork membership or co-working allowance provided globally
What you get
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) for all team members
- Tech allowance for laptop, monitor, and home office setup
- 100% health insurance coverage for employees
- 80% health insurance coverage for dependents
- Annual company off-site in a new city
- Annual education allowance for courses and conferences