The opportunity
Container Engineering (ConEng) owns the internal container platform that runs Supabase's multi-tenant, multi-region services — the managed Kubernetes platform that other engineering teams build and deploy on top of. We own cluster lifecycle and cluster classes, multi-cluster and…
What you'll do
Define SLIs/SLOs and error budgets for the container platform itself, and: build error-budget policies that actually gate platform changes.
Own the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) process for new platform capabilities and major changes.
Design and track metrics for platform uptime, and increase observability into: the platform by capturing the right metrics, logs, and traces across the platform layers.
Drive the incident-to-improvement pipeline: facilitate blameless postmortems, connect findings to readiness gaps, spot repeat failure patterns, and push through systemic fixes.
Build and maintain the platform's automation, controllers, operators, and: internal tooling — writing production code and shipping it, not just wiring together existing tools.
Design and implement the platform-side CI/CD and rollout primitives that: speed up platform deployments while working within proper change and release management.
What they're looking for
- Implement and maintain security automation for the platform: intrusion detection, automated remediation, and patch management.
- Identify and quantify operational toil, and build the automation that removes: it rather than just documenting it.
- Contribute to the platform's continual testing automation: the test suites and pipelines that validate platform releases are fit for purpose before they reach tenants.
- Act as a platform reliability and architecture expert: contribute to failure-mode analysis, dependency mapping, and resilience design for multi-tenant container workloads.
