Platform Security Engineer (Cloud/Kubernetes)

Location: Remote, global; work from anywhere in the world

Company

Supabase provides an open-source-first Postgres development platform with integrated database, authentication, storage, edge functions, realtime, and vector search services.

What you will do

• Identify and reduce security risks across AWS, Kubernetes, containers, and platform infrastructure.
• Conduct threat modeling, architecture reviews, and technical risk assessments.
• Partner with infrastructure, platform, SRE, product engineering, and technical leadership to design practical controls and secure-by-default patterns.
• Improve Kubernetes and container security through workload isolation, RBAC, admission control, secrets management, network policies, and runtime hardening.
• Strengthen AWS security across IAM, account boundaries, network controls, logging, detection, encryption, and service configuration.
• Build scalable guardrails, automation, paved paths, secure defaults, detection mechanisms, and review frameworks.

Requirements

• Senior-level experience in platform security, cloud security, infrastructure security, container security, or security engineering.
• Deep practical experience with AWS, Kubernetes, containers, and Linux security fundamentals.
• Experience with large cloud environments, multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments, developer platforms, SaaS platforms, or high-scale infrastructure teams.
• Strong understanding of identity, networking, workload isolation, runtime security, secrets, supply-chain security, and blast radius.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences in a written, asynchronous environment.
• Ability to manage complex security projects with multiple stakeholders and navigate ambiguity effectively.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote, globally distributed work with no Supabase offices.
• WeWork membership or coworking allowance usable anywhere in the world.
• ESOP equity ownership for every team member.
• Tech allowance for equipment and workspace setup.
• Health insurance covering 100% for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Annual company off-sites, flexible asynchronous work, and an annual professional development allowance.