Cloudflare
Large (~4,000)
Supabase
Small (~250)
Best For
Cloudflare
Best for: Engineers who want mission-driven work building critical internet infrastructure
Supabase
Best for: Open-source developers who want full remote freedom, minimal meetings, and the autonomy to ship constantly
Ratings
CloudflareSupabase
3.9
4.8
Overall
3.7
3.0
Work-Life Balance
4.0
4.9
Culture & Values
3.8
4.8
Comp & Benefits
3.5
4.6
Senior Mgmt
3.8
4.6
Career Opps
👍 72% Recommend
👤 77% CEO Approval (Matthew Prince)
👍 95% Recommend
👤 95% CEO Approval (Paul Copplestone)
Culture Values
Cloudflare only
🎯 Direct Product Impact🌱 Learning & Growth🪟 Transparent
Supabase only
🔓 Open Source🌐 Remote-Friendly🤝 Flat Hierarchy📡 Async-First
Shared
⚙️ Engineering-Driven🚀 Ship Fast & Iterate
Pros & Cons
Cloudflare
- Mission-driven company building critical internet infrastructure — meaningful work with real impact
- Smart colleagues and a culture that values innovation, shipping quickly, and technical excellence
- Compensation can lag behind FAANG competitors, especially base salary
- Some teams experience high pressure and demanding workloads with uneven management quality
Supabase
- Truly open-source DNA — build products millions of developers use daily
- No-hierarchy remote culture with extreme autonomy and generous allowances
- Intense workload — more work than a single person can reasonably manage
- Work-life balance rated 3.0/5 — fast shipping pace can be relentless
Bottom Line
Cloudflare
Choose Cloudflare if you want mission-driven work building critical internet infrastructure with sharp engineers — but compensation lags FAANG and pressure can be high.
Supabase
Egoless, fully remote culture with just one meeting per week and extreme autonomy — but the relentless shipping pace means work-life balance takes a hit.
Open Roles
Cloudflare — 469 jobs
💼 Sales / GTM
226
💻 Engineering
127
📋 Product
19
📣 Marketing
18
📊 Data
10
⚙️ Operations
7
👤 HR / People
6
⚖️ Legal
6
🧠 ML / AI
4
💰 Finance
1
Supabase — 42 jobs
💻 Engineering
25
💼 Sales / GTM
12
📣 Marketing
3
📋 Product
1
Summary
Cloudflare scores 3.9/5.0 on Glassdoor with a 3.7 work-life balance rating. Supabase scores 4.8/5.0 overall with a 3.0 WLB. That’s a 0.9-point gap on overall satisfaction.
Both companies share these culture values: Engineering-Driven, Ship Fast & Iterate. Cloudflare also emphasizes Direct Product Impact, Learning & Growth, Transparent. Supabase also emphasizes Open Source, Remote-Friendly, Flat Hierarchy, Async-First.
On the hiring front, Cloudflare has 469 open roles and Supabase has 42 open roles.