Supabase Platform Engineer on Supabase's Compute Capacity team responsible for capacity planning and provisioning systems to keep compute supply ahead of demand. Builds automation and metrics for capacity management across regions.
Responsibilities
We are seeking a platform engineer to join our Compute Capacity team. This team owns the capacity plan that keeps compute supply ahead of demand across every region we operate in — the forecasting, buffer policy, and provisioning systems that make sure a project never runs into a wall it didn't know was there.
You'll work on the systems that turn a capacity plan into provisioned reality: reservation acquisition, fleet reconciliation, and the automation that keeps what we've committed to in sync with what we're actually running. You'll help build the metrics and alerting that let capacity problems surface months out, on vendor lead time, rather than at the moment someone needs the room.
You'll design, build, and operate systems that are both robust and highly automated — helping us hold the right buffer at the right cost, catch drift before it becomes a shortage, and give every team a single, trustworthy view of how much room we have across the millions of databases we manage.
What You'll Be Responsible For
Help build and maintain the capacity plan that keeps Supabase's compute supply ahead of demand across regions and instance families
Support buffer policy by modeling headroom targets and their cost tradeoffs for review and sign-off
Build and maintain automation that turns the capacity plan into provisioned reality — reservation acquisition and top-up, fleet reconciliation, drift detection between committed and running capacity
Extend our infrastructure as code for capacity-relevant provisioning
Instrument capacity: build and maintain metrics for saturation, reservation coverage, idle buffer, forecast error, and provisioning latency
Build and tune capacity alerting so headroom, quota, and reservation issues surface months out rather than at the moment of impact
Support the demand gate — helping intake large customer commitments, launches, migrations, and new regions so they reach the plan before they reach the fleet
