Supabase Software Engineer at Supabase building distributed systems for CI/CD pipeline execution at scale. Designs orchestration engines and manages ephemeral compute environments for secure build workloads.
Responsibilities
We’re building a high-performance CI/CD execution platform similar to runners used by tools like Buildkite, GitHub Actions, and Blacksmith CI. Our platform executes developer pipelines reliably at scale, integrates deeply with source control, and automates build, test, and deployment workflows.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in async, fast-paced environments and is excited about building developer tools that scale to millions.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
Design and improve the core orchestration engine that manages the lifecycle of creating, merging, and rebasing Supabase Branches.
Provision ephemeral sandboxed execution environment on EKS / ECS for running untrusted build workloads from connected git repositories with securely managed secrets.
Implement job scheduling that scale to thousands of concurrent builds.
Optimize and reduce pipeline runtimes with caching, artifact storage, and dependency reuse.
Manage retry, timeout, cancellation, and failure-propagation logic to ensure pipelines behave predictably under failure conditions.
Instrument the full pipeline lifecycle with observability tooling to surface traces, metrics, and structured logs to the end user.
Develop configuration files (JSON / TOML) and integrations (Terraform / Pulumi) that allow teams to easily define, trigger, and inspect pipelines in code.
You Might Be a Good Fit If You
Have strong software engineering skills (Go and Typescript required);
Qualification
Required
3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at scale
Strong software engineering skills in Go and Typescript
Familiarity with AWS constructs and experience using AWS SDKs and IaC tools like Pulumi or Terraform
Production operations mindset with experience building reliable, observable, and maintainable systems
Preferred
Experience in async or globally distributed teams
Ownership mindset with ability to operate independently
