Software Engineer - Functions (Compute)

About the role

About Supabase 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. Compute is our newly launched microVM architecture for running agentic workloads, operating alongside our existing Edge Functions service for server-side TypeScript functions distributed globally at the edge. We want developers to be able to build truly global applications by distributing both compute and data globally. I

Requirements

• Participating in an on-call rotation to keep Compute healthy in production.
• Help manage and improve features like scheduled functions, background tasks, WebSockets streaming, ephemeral file storage, and custom routing.
• Integrating Compute more tightly with the rest of the Supabase stack — Auth, Postgres, Storage, and Realtime.
• Expanding the Compute runtime to support more use cases (AI inference, MCP servers, hosting simple websites, URL shorteners).
• Improving the DX of developing and debugging Compute locally through the Supabase CLI, including DevTools integration, logging, and production parity.
• At least 5 years of backend or systems engineering experience, with strong fluency in Rust and TypeScript.
• Experience with Firecracker, V8 Isolates, Deno, and related runtime isolation technologies .
• Experience operating infrastructure at scale — Kubernetes, AWS (EC2/Lambda/MicroVM), Cloudflare Workers, Redis, or comparable systems.