Backend Engineer at Supabase - Remote Anywhere — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
Supabase is one of the most nomad-friendly employers in tech. The company has no physical offices, explicitly hires globally across 60+ countries, and operates on an async-first culture — meaning you set your own hours and there are no mandatory timezone windows stated in the posting. This is as close to true location independence as it gets.
Practical perks for travelers:
- WeWork or co-working allowance — usable anywhere in the world, so you're covered in Lisbon, Chiang Mai, Medellín, or Bali without paying out of pocket.
- Tech allowance — covers your gear, reducing the upfront cost of a mobile setup.
- Annual company off-site — a paid, all-company gathering in a new city each year; a rare paid travel perk at no cost to you.
Visa considerations: Since no specific allowed countries are listed and the team spans 60+ nations, you have broad flexibility. Popular options include Portugal's Digital Nomad Visa (D8), Thailand's LTR Visa, or Colombia's digital nomad permit. The async culture means you won't need to match a specific timezone for daily standups.
Cost-of-living context: Without a published salary, direct comparisons are limited — but senior backend roles at well-funded Series F startups typically pay $150K–$220K USD equivalent. In Lisbon (~$2,500/mo living costs), Bangkok (~$1,500/mo), or Medellín (~$1,200/mo), that level of comp stretches significantly further than in SF or NYC.
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.
About the Role
Supabase Storage is a scalable and high-performance object storage service and is one of our fastest growing services. The current landscape of tools for uploading, storing, processing and delivering assets is complicated. Developers are forced to think about regions, caching, codecs and security before they can start uploading anything.
We are looking for engineers to solve this problem once and for all!
You will be working across the entire stack — client libraries, CLI, CDN, the storage server and the deployment infrastructure. One day, you might focus on improving upload resilience in iOS applications; the next, you could be optimizing the S3 protocol for efficient retries or finding ways to accelerate upload processing.
You will be contributing to both our open source server and upstream dependencies we use, like the TUS server.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in async, fast-paced environments and is excited about building developer tools that scale to millions.
What You'll Be Responsible For
- Improving our analytics bucket offering and improving the storage of open file formats like Iceberg and DuckLake
- Asset optimization to speed up delivery for websites and mobile applications
- Building out our edge network to speed up uploads and build features like automatic cache invalidation
- Improving the performance, observability, and reliability of our storage server
- Working with the frontend team to build a fast, powerful storage explorer
- Improving our APIs, client libraries and CLI to provide an exceptional end-to-end developer experience for our users
- Resolving escalated support issues, while also identifying and resolving systemic issues across the platform
You Might Be a Good Fit If You
- Have 5+ years of backend engineering experience running Node.js in production
- Have experience with highly scalable, distributed systems
- Are comfortable working across the stack — backend application development, infrastructure work including deploying, monitoring and scaling the service
- Possess familiarity with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana) and performance tuning
- Have experience with production-grade PostgreSQL usage, including tuning and troubleshooting
- Demonstrate an ownership mentality: driving projects end-to-end
- Display empathy towards developer experience
Nice-to-Have
- Prior experience working on developer tools
- Solid knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Direct experience designing and operating large file upload/download pipelines at scale
- Deep, practical CDN integration and optimization knowledge
- Experience with image and video processing tools (sharp, dssim, ffmpeg), formats and codecs (AVIF, WebM, Brotli)
- Experience with the frontend ecosystem (Next.js, React, etc.)
What We Offer
- Fully Remote: 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.
- ESOP: Every team member receives equity ownership in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we're building together.
- Tech Allowance: Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment — laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
- Health Benefits: Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are.
- Annual Off-Sites: Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun.
- Flexible Work: We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.
- Professional Development: Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.
About the Team
Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.
- ~400 team members
- 60+ countries represented
- 20+ languages spoken
- Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)
- 540,000+ community members
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.
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