Site Reliability Engineer (Postgres)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer (Postgres/AWS): Establishing reliability practices and frameworks to enable engineering teams to own their own reliability with an accent on SLIs, SLOs, and error budget policies. Focus on designing sustainable on-call practices, automating operational toil, and driving systemic fixes from incident postmortems.

Location: Fully Remote (Global)

Company

Supabase is the Postgres development platform providing a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search.

What you will do

• Partner with service teams to define meaningful SLIs and SLOs and build error budget policies to guide engineering decisions.
• Own and evolve the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) process for new services and major changes.
• Strengthen the incident-to-improvement pipeline by connecting postmortem findings to systemic fixes.
• Act as the reliability expert for architecture reviews, failure mode analysis, and resilience design.
• Identify and quantify operational toil across the organization and advocate for automation to eliminate it.
• Help teams design sustainable on-call practices, improving alert quality and reducing noise.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in SRE, production engineering, or reliability-focused roles.
• Proven experience shaping SRE practices and driving adoption across engineering teams.
• Software engineering mindset with the ability to write code and build tools.
• Hands-on experience operationalizing SLOs/SLIs at scale and implementing error budget policies.
• Deep expertise in incident response, postmortem facilitation, and systemic improvement.
• Proficiency with AWS and infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi preferred, Terraform/CDK acceptable).

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes-based platform operations.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, or similar observability tooling.
• Experience building developer-facing reliability tooling such as SLO dashboards or DORA metrics tracking.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with a WeWork membership or co-working allowance provided.
• Equity ownership (ESOP) for every team member.
• 100% health insurance coverage for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Annual company-wide off-sites in different cities.
• Async-first work environment with a professional development allowance for learning.

Hiring process

• Application review followed by a short intro video call.
• Up to four interviews with team leads, peers, cross-functional partners, and leadership.
• Final decision via follow-up questions or a direct offer.