Site Reliability Engineer

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

Supabase is seeking a senior Site Reliability Engineer to embed within Service Operations and raise reliability across all engineering teams. The role focuses on defining SLIs/SLOs, driving operational readiness, and building automation that reduces toil while influencing without direct authority.

Role Snapshot

• Drive reliability practices across engineering teams
• Define and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Lead Operational Readiness Review process
• Build automation to eliminate operational toil
• Partner with services on architecture and resilience design
• Shape on‑call and incident response practices
• Report org‑wide operational maturity

Must-Have Requirements

• SRE methodology (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets)
• Software engineering (coding & tooling)
• Incident response & postmortem facilitation
• SRE
• Production engineering
• Reliability‑focused roles

Nice-to-Have Signals

• AWS cloud infrastructure
• Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi, Terraform, CDK)
• Observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics)
• Kubernetes platform operations
• Developer‑facing reliability tooling
• PostgreSQL / managed database familiarity
• Large‑scale multi‑tenant systems
• Managed database platforms

Work Setup

• Location: Remote, Anywhere
• Work mode: REMOTE
• Remote scope: GLOBAL
• Employment type: Full-Time

Eligibility Gates

• Visa sponsorship: unknown

Not Specified in JD

• Visa sponsorship
• Salary range
• Remote eligibility specifics
• Education requirement
• Certifications
• Travel
• Coding test

What You'll Likely Work On

• Collaborate with service teams to craft meaningful SLIs/SLOs and enforce error‑budget policies
• Own and continuously improve the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) workflow for new services and major changes
• Translate postmortem findings into systemic fixes and reduce repeat failure patterns
• Provide reliability expertise for architecture reviews, failure‑mode analysis, and resilience design
• Identify operational toil and champion automation to streamline processes
• Design sustainable on‑call practices, improving alert quality and runbook coverage
• Measure and communicate organization‑wide operational maturity, driving remediation initiatives

Good Fit If You Have

• Thrives in async, globally distributed environments
• Strong communicator who can influence without authority
• Passionate about enabling other teams to own reliability
• Deep experience with large‑scale, multi‑tenant platforms
• Enjoys building developer‑focused reliability tooling