Release Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own the reliability of Supabase's deployment and release systems and the control plane they run on, against clear SLOs and error budgets
• ▹Turn pre-production into a trustworthy signal by standardizing and instrumenting fragmented, ad-hoc deployment workflows
• ▹Drive disaster-recovery readiness, including making environments reproducibly deployable from scratch
• ▹Build and operate health and SLO monitoring for critical user flows, using synthetic testing
• ▹Reduce mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-recover for deploy-related incidents
• ▹Participate in on-call, lead blameless postmortems, and turn findings into runbooks, alerting and automation
• ▹Improve deployment observability and auditability
• ▹Document operational procedures such as break-glass paths, access models and runbooks
• ▹Define and track SLAs, SLOs, error budgets and DORA delivery metrics
• ▹Partner with product engineering and platform teams to align release practices with reliability and availability targets

Requirements

• ▹5+ years in SRE, production operations, platform engineering or release engineering
• ▹Operated production systems at scale and carried on-call
• ▹Fluent in SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, DORA metrics and the observability tooling behind them (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager or similar)
• ▹Led incident response with tools like incident.io, PagerDuty or Opsgenie, ran blameless postmortems, and driven down MTTD/MTTR
• ▹Confident on AWS in production (multiple accounts, IAM, VPC)
• ▹Comfortable with infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform) and Kubernetes
• ▹Script and automate to eliminate toil
• ▹Communicate clearly with infrastructure specialists and product engineers
• ▹Thrive in async, globally distributed teams

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Fully remote, hiring globally
• ▹WeWork membership or co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world
• ▹ESOP: every team member receives equity
• ▹Tech allowance for setting up your work environment
• ▹100% health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents
• ▹Annual company off-site in a new city
• ▹Flexible, asynchronous work
• ▹Annual education allowance for courses, books and conferences

About the company

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. It provides a complete backend with Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime and Vector Search. About 400 team members, born-remote and open-source-first.