Platform Engineer, Edge & Networking

Role Overview

Supabase is 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 scale reliably while maintaining low latency and high availability across our global infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.