Release Engineer

ABOUT SUPABASE Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth. ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for a Release Engineer (SRE) to join our Release Engineering team (part of EngOps) — a production-operations expert who brings an SRE mindset to how Supabase ships and runs, making deploys safe, observable, and recoverable at scale. Release Engineering's scope has grown well beyond build-and-ship: we increasingly own the operational reliability of the systems that deploy and run Supabase. In this role you'll treat our deployment pipelines, pre-production signal, and the control plane itself as production systems — with SLOs, error budgets, and on-call ownership — and you'll be the person teams lean on when reliability is on the line. This is not a "gatekeeper" role. You'll make the reliable path the easy path: standardising how we deploy, instrumenting what we ship, and ensuring that when something breaks, we detect it quickly and recover quickly. WHAT YOU'LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR In this role, you'll: - 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 — standardizing and instrumenting today's fragmented, ad-hoc deployment workflows - Drive disaster-recovery readiness, including making environments reproducibly deployable from scratch (untangling undocumented secrets, unclear configuration ownership, and circular service dependencies) - Build and operate health and SLO monitoring for critical user flows, using synthetic testing to catch regressions before customers do - Reduce mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-recover for deploy-related incidents — which account for a large share of our incident load - Participate in on-call, lead blameless postmortems, and turn findings into runbooks, alerting, and automation that remove toil - Improve deployment observability and auditability — a clear record of what shipped where, when, and by whom - Document operational procedures — break-glass paths, access models, and runbooks — so reliability knowledge isn't tribal RELIABILITY & OPERATIONS - Define and track SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, and DORA delivery metrics — with meaningful alerting over noise - Ensure deployments fail fast and safely when health checks degrade - Harden access and break-glass workflows (e.g. scoped self-service) so the right people can act in an incident without unsafe workarounds - Partner with product engineering and platform teams to align release practices with reliability and availability targets YOU MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT IF YOU - Have 5+ years in SRE, production operations, platform engineering, or release engineering - Have operated production systems at scale and carried on-call for them - Are fluent in SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, DORA metrics, and operational KPIs — and the observability tooling behind them (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, or similar) - Have led incident response with tooling like incident.io http://incident.io (or PagerDuty / Opsgenie), run blameless postmortems, and driven down MTTD/MTTR - Operate confidently on AWS (multiple accounts, IAM, VPC) in production - Are comfortable with infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform) and Kubernetes - Script and automate to eliminate toil rather than absorb it - Communicate clearly with both infrastructure specialists and product engineers - Thrive in async, globally distributed teams - Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and iterating toward better systems over time WHAT WE OFFER - Fully Remote We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.

• ESOP Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.
• Tech Allowance Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
• Health Benefits Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are.

• Annual Off-Sites Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year.
• Flexible Work We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.
• Professional Development Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.

• ~400 team members - 60+ countries - 20+ languages spoken - Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F) - 540,000+ community members We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship.

• Highlight concrete examples where you reduced MTTR or improved deployment observability in past roles.
• Include a short write‑up of a recent on‑call incident you led, focusing on the post‑mortem process and automation you introduced.
• Demonstrate familiarity with Supabase’s stack by mentioning any experience with Postgres, edge functions, or real‑time data pipelines.
• Prepare to discuss your approach to defining SLOs and error budgets; bring metrics or dashboards you built.
• When interviewing, showcase your scripting skills by walking through a small automation you wrote to eliminate toil.
• Negotiate equity by asking about the ESOP vesting schedule and how the company values employee ownership.
• Watch for vague on‑call expectations; ask how many hours per week are typical and what support structures exist for incident response.