Platform Engineer, Edge & Networking

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.

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 wh

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