Specialty
The role
Supabase is hiring a Senior Postgres Engineer for its Postgres team, which maintains the hosted Postgres offering of its developer platform. The role requires strong overlap with Americas time zones for production support and on-call work; Supabase is fully remote and hires globally.
What you will do
- Build and maintain PostgreSQL extensions in C and Rust.
- Diagnose and fix issues in managed Postgres deployments, including extension failures, core dumps and performance bottlenecks.
- Own idempotent deployment pipelines across thousands of running Postgres instances, including testing and rollout.
- Manage extension compatibility, upgrade paths and conflicts.
- Work with Postgres background workers, shared memory and hooks to build reliable features.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals: planner, executor, storage engine, WAL and MVCC.
- Proven experience building Postgres extensions in both C and Rust.
- Strong knowledge of the Postgres permission model, including RLS, roles and grants.
- Experience troubleshooting production issues in managed Postgres environments.
- Ability to read and navigate Postgres source code, and experience with multi-tenant architectures and running Postgres at scale.
- Working overlap with Americas time zones for on-call.
What they offer
- Fully remote with a co-working allowance
- Equity (ESOP) for every team member
- Tech allowance for equipment
- Health insurance covered 100% for employees and 80% for dependents
- Annual company off-site and an education allowance
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.
