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Container Engineer
DevOpsRemote — worldwide
Published on 2026-10-26
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About this role
Build and operate Supabase’s multi-tenant, multi-region Kubernetes container platform. The role focuses on making the platform reliable, observable, secure, and cost-effective, while helping product teams deploy and operate services safely.
About the company
Supabase builds an open-source backend platform with Postgres, auth, storage, and realtime APIs. It helps developers launch production apps without managing custom infrastructure.
The team
Container Engineering (ConEng), responsible for the internal container platform.
Stack
KubernetescontainerdOCIArgo CDArgo RolloutsCiliumeBPFGateway API
What you'll do
- Define platform SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and change-gating policies.
- Improve platform observability and lead incident follow-up and systemic reliability fixes.
- Build and maintain production automation, controllers, operators, and internal tooling.
- Develop platform CI/CD and rollout primitives, plus continual release-testing automation.
- Implement security automation for intrusion detection, remediation, and patch management.
- Evaluate platform technologies and improve multi-tenant resilience, isolation, and cost efficiency.
- Participate in the platform on-call rota and guide service teams on operational practices.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years in platform engineering, Kubernetes/container operations, SRE, or production infrastructure.
- Production-scale operations experience, including on-call responsibility.
- Deep expertise in at least one of container tooling, software engineering, or SRE practice; ideally two.
- Experience with Kubernetes and large-scale multi-tenant systems and workload isolation.
- Confident AWS skills, including multiple accounts, IAM, and VPC; experience with infrastructure as code.
- Production coding ability in Go or a comparable systems language, with automation and toil reduction experience.
- Clear communication skills and comfort working in an async, globally distributed environment.
Nice to have
- Experience building and operating an internal multi-tenant Kubernetes platform.
- Familiarity with policy engines and per-tenant cost attribution.
- Experience with managed database platforms or Postgres.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, or Grafana.
Benefits
- Company equity through an ESOP.
- WeWork membership or coworking allowance.
- Tech and annual professional-development allowances.
- Health insurance coverage for employees and partial coverage for dependents.
- Annual company off-site.
- Flexible, asynchronous work.