Platform Engineer - Compute

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ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a platform engineer to join our Compute team. This team owns the critical systems that power project provisioning, scaling, and the compute that our users rely on every day. You’ll work on the core platform that ensures Supabase can seamlessly scale across multiple regions, handle high-volume workloads, and provide low-latency, highly available compute services. You'll design, build, and operate systems that are both robust and highly automated — enabling us to provision new projects reliably at scale, optimize resource utilization, and deliver a seamless experience to the millions of databases which we manage. WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR: - Help build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering; - Design and implement systems to provision, scale, and manage the multi-region compute workloads powering Supabase projects; - Own the full lifecycle of compute orchestration: project creation, warm pools, autoscaling, resizing, and resource optimization; - Improve automation and observability across the compute stack to ensure high availability and performance; - Improve our system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security, reliability, and…