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Software Engineer - Branching
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Worldwide
Experience
Mid-level · 3+ years
Job description
Design and build the distributed systems behind Supabase's CI/CD execution platform, orchestrating ephemeral compute environments and scheduling build jobs at scale. The role focuses on running developer pipelines securely and reliably.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Worldwide
What you'll do
- Design and improve the core orchestration engine that manages the lifecycle of creating, merging, and rebasing Supabase Branches
- Provision ephemeral sandboxed execution environments on EKS / ECS for running untrusted build workloads from connected git repositories with securely managed secrets
- Implement job scheduling that scales to thousands of concurrent builds
- Optimize and reduce pipeline runtimes with caching, artifact storage, and dependency reuse
- Manage retry, timeout, cancellation, and failure-propagation logic to ensure pipelines behave predictably under failure conditions
- Instrument the full pipeline lifecycle with observability tooling to surface traces, metrics, and structured logs to the end user
- Develop configuration files (JSON / TOML) and integrations (Terraform / Pulumi) that allow teams to easily define, trigger, and inspect pipelines in code
What we're looking for
- Strong software engineering skills (Go and Typescript required)
- 3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale
- Cloud infrastructure knowledge - familiarity with AWS constructs is required
- Production operations mindset - track record of building reliable, observable, and maintainable systems
- Ownership mindset - able to operate independently with high-level guidance
- Communicate clearly across both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience in async or globally distributed teams
- Energized by solving real-world problems for developers
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and moving quickly
Nice to have
- Past experience using the AWS SDKs and IaC tools (Pulumi, Terraform, etc) to build and operate infrastructure
Benefits
- Fully Remote - hire globally, WeWork membership or co-working allowance anywhere in the world
- ESOP - every team member receives equity ownership in the company
- Tech Allowance - budget to set up your ideal work environment
- Health Benefits - Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents
- Annual Off-Sites - entire company gathers in a new city once a year
- Flexible Work - operate asynchronously and manage your own time
- Professional Development - annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences
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About Supabase
The Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers
Supabase provides a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.
Key facts
- ~400 team members
- 60+ countries
- 20+ languages spoken
- Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)
- 540,000+ community members
- Born-remote and open-source-first
- No Supabase offices
What they value
- Open-source ecosystem support
- Build in public
- Move fast
- Use what we ship