Cloud System Engineer

What you'll do

• Run and improve our Supabase backend: Postgres schema and migrations, row-level security (RLS) policies, and edge functions written in Deno and TypeScript.
• Operate our Cloudflare setup: Workers, R2 storage and the static marketing site, including caching, routing and deploys.
• Finish moving files from legacy AWS S3 and CloudFront to R2 without downtime or lost data.
• Make background uploads from iOS, Android and the web reliable: resumable transfers, sensible retries and clear failure reporting.
• Own monitoring and error alerting, so problems reach us before they reach users.
• Keep Postgres fast on a small plan: query plans, indexes, connection limits and data retention.
• Keep costs under control across storage, egress and compute, and write down the trade-offs.
• Run backups and disaster recovery, and prove restores work by testing them.
• Harden security: RLS reviews, signed URLs, rate limits and least-privilege keys.
• Respond to incidents: restore service first, then write the incident report. We keep one for every incident.

Must-haves

• Production experience with Postgres: schema design, migrations, query tuning and access control.
• Hands-on work with object storage and CDNs (AWS S3, R2 or similar): signed URLs, caching and lifecycle rules.
• Strong TypeScript, and comfort reading and writing server-side code.
• You have owned production incidents and can write a clear, blameless incident report.
• Security habits: least privilege, careful handling of secrets, and reviewing access rules before they ship.
• Clear written English and the ability to work independently and asynchronously.
• You are based in the United States and can work as an independent contractor.

Nice-to-haves

• Supabase in production: auth, RLS and edge functions.
• Cloudflare Workers and R2.
• Migrating large amounts of data between storage providers.
• Deno.
• Knowing how iOS and Android schedule and limit background transfers.
• Reading cloud bills: egress, storage classes and capacity planning.

How we work

• Asynchronous and written first. Few meetings; plans and decisions live in writing.
• Small team, no layers. You work directly with the person who owns the decision.
• High craft. Changes are reviewed, tested and reversible. We would rather ship a small fix right than a big one twice.
• Users first. No ads and no data mining, so reliability and privacy are the product.

Pay and terms

• USD $35–60 per hour. Your rate is agreed in writing before work starts.
• Independent contractor engagement, not employment, so there are no employee benefits.
• Fully remote within the United States. Our HQ is in Florida, so we coordinate in US Eastern Time.
• Hours and scope are agreed up front and reviewed as the work changes.

Hiring process

1. 1Email us using the steps below.
2. 2A short call about your experience and the kind of work you want.
3. 3A technical conversation: we walk through a real problem from our stack together.
4. 4A decision, then written terms and a start date.