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The role
Supabase, the Postgres development platform, is hiring an OrioleDB Developer to evolve OrioleDB, a storage engine for PostgreSQL, and work with the upstream PostgreSQL community. The role needs strong overlap with Americas time zones for production support and on-call.
What you will do
- Design and implement OrioleDB features such as native index access methods (GiST, GIN, HNSW) and disaster recovery tooling
- Build test infrastructure: regression suites, fuzzing, crash and recovery testing, and CI
- Prepare and submit patches to PostgreSQL core through its open development process
- Debug complex low-level C code across storage, replication, indexing and query execution
- Make OrioleDB fit Supabase's managed Postgres offering
- Support OrioleDB in production, including tickets and on-call
What they ask for
- Existing PostgreSQL core contributor or equivalent database internals experience
- 8+ years of production C programming focused on low-level systems
- Deep familiarity with the PostgreSQL codebase, build system and extension APIs
- Experience building database storage engines, index structures or query execution components
- Experience debugging and profiling complex C code
- Comfortable contributing to community-driven upstream open source
- Working hours overlapping Americas time zones for on-call
What they offer
- ESOP equity for every team member
- Tech allowance for work equipment
- Health insurance covered 100% for employees and 80% for dependents
- WeWork membership or co-working allowance
- Annual education allowance
- Yearly company off-site
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Supabase's careers page behind the apply button.
