Release Engineer

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. Your wellbeing and your family's health are important to us.

• 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