Site Reliability Engineer

Supabase

Site Reliability Engineer at Supabase enhancing reliability practices across engineering teams. Collaborating on observability and operational readiness for millions of Postgres instances.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeRemote • 🌎 Anywhere in the WorldSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudPostgresTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with service teams to define meaningful SLIs and SLOs grounded in customer experience, and build the error budget policies that turn them into engineering decisions
Own and evolve the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) process — conducting reviews for new services and major changes across observability, alerting, runbooks, capacity, and graceful degradation
Strengthen the incident-to-improvement pipeline: connecting postmortem findings to operational readiness gaps, identifying repeat failure patterns, and driving systemic fixes
Act as the reliability expert teams pull in for architecture reviews, failure mode analysis, dependency mapping, and resilience design
Identify and quantify operational toil across the org, and build or advocate for automation that eliminates it
Help teams design sustainable on-call practices: alert quality, escalation paths, runbook coverage, and noise reduction
Track and report on org-wide operational maturity, surfacing systemic gaps and driving remediation

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have 7+ years of experience in SRE, production engineering, or reliability-focused roles, including experience shaping SRE practices and driving adoption across engineering teams
Have a software engineering mindset — you write code and build tools, not just configure them
Have hands-on experience defining and operationalizing SLOs/SLIs at scale, including error budget policies that actually influenced engineering decisions
Have deep experience with incident response, postmortem facilitation, and turning incident learnings into systemic improvements
Have worked with large-scale multi-tenant systems (bonus: managed database platforms or Postgres)
Are proficient with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi preferred, Terraform/CDK also acceptable)
Communicate clearly and persuasively — this role requires influencing without authority across a distributed org
Have experience in async or globally distributed teams
Are energized by making other teams more effective rather than being the one who fixes everything

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully Remote
ESOP
Tech Allowance
Health Benefits
Annual Off-Sites
Flexible Work
Professional Development

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Hard Skills & Tools

SREproduction engineeringreliability engineeringSLOsSLIsincident responsepostmortem facilitationinfrastructure-as-codeautomationerror budget policies

Soft Skills

communicationinfluencing without authoritycollaborationproblem-solvingorganizational skillsleadershipadaptabilitypersuasivenessteam effectivenesscritical thinking