The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
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
What they're looking for
- Support the demand gate: helping intake large customer commitments, launches, migrations, and new regions so they reach the plan before they reach the fleet
- Contribute to mitigation projects: right-sizing, instance-family migrations, autoscaling improvements, workload consolidation
- Help drive down compute cost per database through right-sizing, placement, and commitment coverage work
- Participate in capacity incident response and post-incident follow-through
