Platform Engineer - Compute Capacity
Supabase
SeniorAbout the position
Join a dynamic team as a Platform Engineer, focusing on capacity planning and automation to ensure optimal compute supply across regions.
Tech stack
- typescript
- python
- go
- aws-ec2
- terraform
- prometheus
- grafana
Requirements
Required:
- 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
- Have experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi or Terraform)
- Have solid working knowledge of AWS EC2: instance families and generations, purchase options, capacity reservations, and quota mechanics
Nice to have:
- Are comfortable working against forecasts and assumptions that are incomplete, and can revise your work as those assumptions change
- Have built or maintained observability for systems you own — metrics that answer real questions and alerting people trust
- Have some financial fluency — you understand reservation economics and the basic tradeoffs between coverage, utilization, and cost
Responsibilities
- 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
- Instrument capacity: build and maintain metrics for saturation, reservation coverage, idle buffer, forecast error, and provisioning latency
Benefits
- We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere.
- Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company.
- Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
- Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are.