Software Engineer: IaC Platform Experience

<h3><strong>About Supabase</strong></h3> <p>Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.</p> </p> <h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3> <p>We are looking for a Software Engineer: IaC Platform Experience to join our Interfaces team and own the Terraform provider as a core part of Supabase's developer platform.</p> <p>This is a hands-on engineering role focused on the Go codebase behind the Supabase Terraform provider. You will partner with product and engineering leadership on roadmap priorities, drive technical execution, and ensure we ship a reliable, predictable, and well-documented Terraform experience for developers at scale.</p> <p>You will focus on resource behavior, lifecycle correctness, schema evolution, upgrade safety, and practical migration paths for existing users.</p> <p>This role is ideal for someone who thrives in async, fast-paced environments and enjoys building practical platform primitives that millions of developers can rely on.</p> </p> <h3><strong>What You’ll Own</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p>Own the Go Terraform provider codebase, including architecture, implementation quality, test strategy, and release readiness.</p> </li> <li> <p>Improve Terraform provider reliability and ergonomics, including resource behavior, data sources, lifecycle edge cases, and upgrade safety.</p> </li> <li> <p>Drive technical strategy for IaC workflows through design docs, RFCs, and iterative delivery.</p> </li> <li> <p>Build practical migration and interoperability paths for existing Terraform users.</p> </li> <li> <p>Partner with product and engineering leadership in a shared roadmap model to define priorities, scope, and outcomes.</p> </li> <li> <p>Monitor customer feedback, OSS issues, and usage signals to continuously improve the Terraform experience.</p> </li> <li> <p>Create clear documentation and examples that make IaC workflows easier to understand and adopt.</p> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>What You Bring</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p>5+ years of software engineering experience in developer platforms, infrastructure tooling, or distributed systems.</p> </li> <li> <p>Strong proficiency in <strong>Go</strong> and a track record of shipping production-grade developer tooling.</p> </li> <li> <p>Deep experience with Terraform provider behavior, declarative resource models, and lifecycle edge cases.</p> </li> <li> <p>Strong understanding of schema design, versioning, and backwards compatibility.</p> </li> <li> <p>Experience owning or contributing to a provider codebase with real user adoption and upgrade constraints.</p> </li> <li> <p>Experience with testing strategy for providers and IaC tooling (unit, integration, and end-to-end) plus CI/CD pipelines.</p> </li> <li> <p>Familiarity with release/versioning strategies and backwards compatibility in widely used developer tooling.</p> </li> <li> <p>Strong written communication and a track record of clear technical design docs and RFCs.</p> </li> <li> <p>Nice to have: familiarity with TypeScript-based tooling, Supabase CLI workflows, and GitHub-centric automation.</p> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>Decision-Making and Collaboration</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p>This role operates in a <strong>shared consensus model</strong> for major technical decisions with peers and leadership.</p> </li> <li> <p>You are expected to lead proposals and recommendations, align stakeholders, and move decisions to clear outcomes.</p> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>What We Offer</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p><strong>Fully Remote</strong></p> <p>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.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>ESOP</strong></p> <p>Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Tech Allowance</strong></p> <p>Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Health Benefits</strong></p> <p>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.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Annual Off-Sites</strong></p> <p>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.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Flexible Work</strong></p> <p>We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>Professional Development</strong></p> <p>Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.</p> </p> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>About the Team</strong></h3> <p>Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.</p> <ul> <li> <p>~400 team members</p> </li> <li> <p>60+ countries</p> </li> <li> <p>20+ languages spoken</p> </li> <li> <p>Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)</p> </li> <li> <p>540,000+ community members</p> </li> </ul> <p>We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities.</p>