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Platform Engineer, Edge & Networking

Join Supabase as a Platform Engineer to design and operate global edge networking solutions in a fully remote environment.

Location
Remote, Global
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
senior
Type
full time · Remote

Posted by employer 1 month ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago

Last verified on the company career page 11 hours ago

What you'll build

  • Build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering
  • Design and implement Supabase’s global edge router platform
  • Build programmable, API-driven routing logic
  • Implement advanced observability
  • Optimize routing performance

Must have

  • 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 certificate management
  • Proficiency with traffic proxies / routers
  • Strong software engineering skills (Go)

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of IPv6, BGP, Anycast, or advanced routing protocols
  • Experience in managing large deployments on AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools

Practical constraints

  • Participate in on-call rotations

Requirements

Experience
5+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.

Benefits

Education Budget Equity/Stock Options Remote Work Health Insurance

Joblaze summary

In this role, the platform engineer focuses on designing, building, and maintaining Supabase's global edge router platform, ensuring robust and automated systems for traffic management. Key skills include expertise in networking protocols, load balancing, and cloud infrastructure, along with strong software engineering capabilities in Go. This position is ideal for someone with significant experience in SRE or DevOps, particularly in high-scale networking environments. Supabase's fully remote and open-source-first culture fosters collaboration among a diverse, global team.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 15, 2026. Last confirmed on Supabase's careers page November 1, 2026.
  • Terraform appears in 47.8% of 402 comparable senior devops/sre roles; Anycast appears in 0.2% of 402 comparable senior devops/sre roles.

Quick facts

Is the Platform Engineer, Edge & Networking role remote?
Yes — Supabase lists this as a fully remote position.
How much experience is required?
At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Platform Engineer, Edge & Networking role.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Anycast, Azure, BGP, CDK, CDN.
What seniority level is this role?
Supabase targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Platform Engineer, Edge & Networking role at Supabase.

From the original posting

We are seeking a platform engineer to join our Edge & Networking squad. This team owns everything that happens at the network perimeter: API gateway, routing, load balancing, DNS, and secure global traffic distribution.

You'll design, build, and operate systems that are both robust and highly automated — enabling us to to scale reliably while maintaining low latency and high availability across our global infrastructure.

You will work closely with other infrastructure and product teams to ensure seamless integration, observability, and performance of our edge services.

What You’ll Be Responsible for:

  • Help build and maintain the Supabase Cloud offering;

  • Design and implement Supabase’s global edge router platform;

  • Build programmable, API-driven routing logic to dynamically steer customer traffic;

  • Work with DNS, WAF, IP networking, TLS termination, CDN integrations, and global load balancing;

  • Implement advanced observability: relevant metric and log capturing, latency measurements, traffic shaping, routing health, and failure mitigation.

  • Optimize routing performance to minimize latency and improve reliability across cloud regions.

  • Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to integrate networking solutions into the entire Supabase stack;

  • Improve our system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security, reliability, and performance;

  • Design CI/CD systems to speed up deployments with proper change and release management processes;

  • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews for edge-related issues;

  • Resolve escalated support issues, while also identifying and resolving systemic issues across the platform.

You might be a fit if you have:

  • 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 certificate 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 systems for high availability, failover, and real-time observability;

  • Strong software engineering skills (Go);

  • Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across distributed systems;

  • Knowledge of IPv6, BGP, Anycast, or advanced routing protocols;

  • Experience in managing large deployments on AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar;

  • Comfortable with cloud networking primitives (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar);

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Pulumi preferred, Terraform/CDK etc also acceptable);

  • Experience with being part of on-call rotations for large production systems.

What We Offer

  • Fully Remote

  • ESOP

  • Tech Allowance

  • Health Benefits

  • Annual Off-Sites

  • Flexible Work

  • Professional Development

  • ~400 team members

  • 60+ countries

  • 20+ languages spoken

  • 540,000+ community members

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