Release Engineer (SRE) (Postgres)

TL;DR

Release Engineer (SRE) (AWS/Kubernetes): Ensuring the reliability and scalability of Supabase's deployment systems and control plane with an accent on SLOs, error budgets, and DORA metrics. Focus on automating deployment workflows, reducing MTTD/MTTR, and building robust disaster-recovery capabilities.

Location: 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

• Own the reliability of deployment and release systems against clear SLOs and error budgets.
• Standardize and instrument deployment workflows to create trustworthy pre-production signals.
• Drive disaster-recovery readiness, ensuring environments are reproducibly deployable from scratch.
• Build and operate health monitoring and SLOs for critical user flows using synthetic testing.
• Reduce mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) and mean-time-to-recover (MTTR) for deploy-related incidents.
• Lead blameless postmortems and improve deployment observability and auditability.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, production operations, platform engineering, or release engineering.
• Experience operating production systems at scale and carrying on-call responsibilities.
• Fluency in SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, DORA metrics, and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Proven experience leading incident response and conducting blameless postmortems.
• Strong operational expertise in AWS (IAM, VPC), Infrastructure-as-Code (Pulumi, Terraform), and Kubernetes.
• Ability to thrive in an async, globally distributed team environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with a provided WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
• Equity ownership (ESOP) for every team member.
• 100% covered health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents globally.
• Annual company-wide off-sites in various cities for connection and collaboration.
• Asynchronous work culture with high trust and flexibility in time management.
• Annual education allowance for professional development (courses, books, conferences).