Software Engineer - Functions (Compute)

SupabaseWorldwideMid Level5+ years experienceBackend

Specialty

Backend

The role

Supabase is hiring a Software Engineer for Functions (Compute), building its microVM-based compute platform for agentic workloads alongside Edge Functions. The company is fully remote and hires globally.

What you will do

  • Build and architect the Compute platform on Firecracker microVMs
  • Add monitoring, alerting and OpenTelemetry tracing to improve latency and reliability
  • Contribute upstream to Firecracker, Deno and other open-source projects
  • Take part in an on-call rotation
  • Improve features such as scheduled functions, background tasks, WebSockets and custom routing
  • Integrate Compute with Auth, Postgres, Storage and Realtime

What they ask for

  • At least 5 years of backend or systems engineering
  • Strong Rust and TypeScript
  • Experience with Firecracker, V8 isolates, Deno or similar runtime isolation
  • Experience operating infrastructure at scale with Kubernetes, AWS, Cloudflare Workers or Redis
  • A view on pushing compute and data to the edge

What they offer

  • Fully remote, with co-working allowance
  • ESOP equity for every team member
  • Tech allowance for equipment
  • Health insurance covered 100% for employees and 80% for dependents
  • Annual company off-site
  • Annual education allowance

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Supabase's careers page behind the apply button.

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