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SupabaseRelease Engineer
Supabase operates as a Postgres development platform designed by developers for developers, offering a complete backend solution encompassing databases, authentication, storage, edge functions, realtime capabilities, and…
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Supabase operates as a Postgres development platform designed by developers for developers, offering a complete backend solution encompassing databases, authentication, storage, edge functions, realtime capabilities, and vector search. The company is currently hiring a remote Release Engineer to join the Release Engineering team within EngOps. This position centers on bringing a Site Reliability Engineering mindset to how the platform ships and runs, ensuring deployments remain safe, observable, and recoverable at…
Job Description
Supabase operates as a Postgres development platform designed by developers for developers, offering a complete backend solution encompassing databases, authentication, storage, edge functions, realtime capabilities, and vector search. The company is currently hiring a remote Release Engineer to join the Release Engineering team within EngOps. This position centers on bringing a Site Reliability Engineering mindset to how the platform ships and runs, ensuring deployments remain safe, observable, and recoverable at scale.
In this capacity, the Release Engineer treats deployment pipelines, pre-production signals, and the control plane as production systems governed by service level objectives, error budgets, and on-call ownership. Rather than acting as a gatekeeper, this team member builds reliable paths by standardizing deployment procedures, instrumenting shipped code, and accelerating incident detection and recovery. Key duties involve driving disaster recovery readiness, operating health and SLO monitoring using synthetic testing, minimizing mean time to detect and recover from deploy-related incidents, and leading blameless postmortems.
Ideal candidates possess extensive experience in site reliability engineering, production operations, platform engineering, or release engineering. The company functions as a globally distributed, remote-first organization with approximately 400 team members spanning over 60 countries. Supabase provides competitive benefits including equity ownership, comprehensive health insurance coverage, a technology setup allowance, a co-working or WeWork membership, an annual education budget, and yearly company-wide off-sites.
Responsibilities
- Manage the reliability of deployment and release systems as well as the underlying control plane against established SLOs and error budgets
- Transform pre-production environments into trustworthy signals by standardizing and instrumenting fragmented deployment workflows
- Drive disaster recovery readiness to make environments reproducibly deployable from scratch
- Build and operate health and SLO monitoring for critical user flows utilizing synthetic testing
- Reduce mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-recover for deployment-related incidents
- Take part in on-call rotations, direct blameless postmortems, and translate findings into runbooks, alerts, and automation
- Enhance deployment observability and auditability by maintaining clear records of software releases
- Document operational procedures, break-glass pathways, access models, and runbooks
- Define and track SLAs, error budgets, and DORA delivery metrics accompanied by relevant alerts
- Harden access and break-glass workflows to allow secure and swift intervention during incidents
- Collaborate alongside product engineering and platform teams to align release processes with availability targets
Requirements
- Bring over five years of professional experience in SRE, production operations, platform engineering, or release engineering
- Demonstrate hands-on background operating production systems at scale and managing on-call duties for them
- Show fluency in SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, DORA metrics, operational KPIs, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Alertmanager
- Have led incident response using platforms like incident.io, PagerDuty, or Opsgenie, conducted blameless postmortems, and improved MTTD and MTTR metrics
- Work confidently with production AWS environments spanning multiple accounts, IAM, and VPC configurations
- Utilize infrastructure-as-code frameworks including Pulumi or Terraform
- Possess proficiency in Kubernetes
- Write scripts and automation to eliminate operational toil
Core Skills
Benefits
- Fully remote work model with a WeWork membership or global co-working allowance
- ESOP equity ownership in the company
- Technology allowance for setting up an ideal work environment
- Health insurance coverage paid at 100 percent for employees and 80 percent for dependents
- Annual company-wide off-sites gathering in a new city every year
- Annual education allowance to support professional growth and learning
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Is this position remote?
Yes, this role is fully remote and permits you to work from anywhere globally.
What level of experience is required for this role?
Candidates must have five or more years of experience in site reliability engineering, production operations, platform engineering, or release engineering.
What is the salary for the Release Engineer role?
The salary is not stated in the job posting.
What benefits does Supabase offer?
Supabase provides employee equity ownership, 100 percent health insurance coverage for employees and 80 percent for dependents, a tech allowance, professional development funds, co-working allowances, and annual company off-sites.
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