<h2>About Supabase</h2>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.<h2>About the Role</h2>Supabase manages millions of Postgres instances and is growing. We have strong teams across observability, release engineering, and incident management — and we're concentrating our reliability efforts into a dedicated SRE practice that ties the discipline together across the platform.You'll be embedded within Service Operations, and your primary job is to make every engineering team more reliable — not by owning their infrastructure, but by establishing the practices, frameworks, and feedback loops that let them own reliability themselves. You'll work across the org: sometimes setting the standard, sometimes pair-programming a fix, sometimes helping a team define their error budget, sometimes telling them it's exhausted.This role is ideal for someone who has a strong vision for how SRE should work and thrives in async, fast-paced environments where influence matters more than authority.<h2>What You'll Own</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Partner with service teams to define meaningful SLIs and SLOs grounded in customer experience, and build the error budget policies that turn them into engineering decisions</li><li>Own and evolve the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) process — conducting reviews for new services and major changes across observability, alerting, runbooks, capacity, and graceful degradation</li><li>Strengthen the incident-to-improvement pipeline: connecting postmortem findings to operational readiness gaps, identifying repeat failure patterns, and driving systemic fixes</li><li>Act as the reliability expert teams pull in for architecture reviews, failure mode analysis, dependency mapping, and resilience design</li><li>Identify and quantify operational toil across the org, and build or advocate for automation that eliminates it</li><li>Help teams design sustainable on-call practices: alert quality, escalation paths, runbook coverage, and noise reduction</li><li>Track and report on org-wide operational maturity, surfacing systemic gaps and driving remediation</li></ul><h2>You Might Be a Good Fit If You</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Have 7+ years of experience in SRE, production engineering, or reliability-focused roles, including experience shaping SRE practices and driving adoption across engineering teams</li><li>Have a software engineering mindset — you write code and build tools, not just configure them</li><li>Have hands-on experience defining and operationalizing SLOs/SLIs at scale, including error budget policies that actually influenced engineering decisions</li><li>Have deep experience with incident response, postmortem facilitation, and turning incident learnings into systemic improvements</li><li>Have worked with large-scale multi-tenant systems (bonus: managed database platforms or Postgres)</li><li>Are proficient with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi preferred, Terraform/CDK also acceptable)</li><li>Communicate clearly and persuasively — this role requires influencing without authority across a distributed org</li><li>Have experience in async or globally distributed teams</li><li>Are energized by making other teams more effective rather than being the one who fixes everything</li></ul><h2>Nice to Have</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience with Kubernetes-based platform operations</li><li>Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, or similar observability tooling</li><li>Experience building developer-facing reliability tooling (SLO dashboards, ORR frameworks, toil tracking, DORA metrics)</li></ul><h2></h2><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Fully RemoteWe hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.</li><li>ESOPEvery team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.</li><li>Tech AllowanceUse this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.</li><li>Health BenefitsSupabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family’s health are important to us.</li><li>Annual Off-SitesOnce a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year.</li><li>Flexible WorkWe operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.</li><li>Professional DevelopmentEvery team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.</li></ul><h3>About the Team</h3>Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>280+ team members</li><li>55+ countries</li><li>20+ languages spoken</li><li>$500M raised</li><li>500,000+ community members</li></ul>We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities.<h3>Hiring Process</h3>We keep things simple, async-friendly, and respectful of your time:<ol style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Apply – Our team will review your application.</li><li>Intro Call – A short video chat to get to know each other.</li><li>Interviews – Up to four calls with:<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Team Leads</li><li>Future teammates</li><li>Someone cross-functional from product, growth, or engineering (depending on the role)</li><li>Someone from our leadership/founding team</li></ul></li><li>Decision – We may follow up with a final question or go straight to offer.</li></ol>All communication is remote and we aim to move fast.

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