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Platform Engineer, Edge & Networking
About this role
Supabase is hiring a Platform Engineer for the Edge & Networking squad. The role focuses on owning network perimeter functions such as API gateway, routing, load balancing, DNS, and secure global traffic distribution to ensure low latency and high availability. You will design, build, and operate robust, automated edge systems and collaborate with infrastructure and product teams for integration, observability, and performance. The team aims to scale the Supabase Cloud offering while optimising costs, security, and reliability. The position is for candidates with extensive experience in SRE/DevOps and cloud infrastructure, and involves on-call participation and incident response.
What you would do
- Help build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering
- Design and implement the global edge router platform
- Build API-driven routing logic to dynamically steer traffic
- Work with DNS, WAF, IP networking, TLS termination, CDN integrations, and global load balancing
- Implement observability including metrics, logs, latency, traffic shaping, routing health and failure mitigation
- Optimise routing performance to reduce latency across regions
- Collaborate with other teams to integrate networking solutions into the Supabase stack
- Improve architecture to balance security, reliability and cost
- Design CI/CD systems to speed deployments with proper change management
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response and post-incident reviews
What they are asking for
- 5+ years experience in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure
- 4+ years experience building and operating high-scale networking or edge infrastructure
- Strong experience with HTTP, TCP/IP, TLS management, CDN internals, load balancing, and global routing
- Proficiency with traffic proxies/routers (e.g., Envoy, NGINX, HAProxy, Traefik) or building your own
- Experience designing high-availability, failover and real-time observability systems
- Strong software engineering skills (Go)
- Strong debugging skills across distributed systems
- Knowledge of IPv6, BGP, Anycast or advanced routing protocols
- Experience managing large deployments on AWS/GCP/Azure or similar
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi preferred; Terraform/CDK acceptable)
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