Database Support Engineer (AMER)

Employer shown to signed-in membersNorth America, Latin AmericaMid Level7+ years experienceSupport Engineering

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The role

The company is hiring an experienced Database Support Engineer for its Support team to help developers resolve complex issues on its Postgres platform. The role is full-time and requires being located within North or South American time zones; the company is fully remote.

What you will do

  • Resolve advanced customer issues across Postgres, Auth, RLS, Storage, Realtime, Edge Functions and client libraries.
  • Advise advanced users on optimizing workloads and avoiding common pitfalls.
  • Reproduce bugs, isolate root causes and escalate to engineering with clear reproduction steps.
  • Spot patterns across tickets and recommend documentation, tooling and product improvements.
  • Mentor junior team members and raise support quality.

What they ask for

  • 7+ years in technical support, databases, backend engineering, SRE or a similar field.
  • Deep PostgreSQL knowledge, including autovacuum, WAL growth, long-running transactions and table bloat.
  • Strong SQL and query optimization skills.
  • Experience troubleshooting multi-tenant schemas and distributed system behavior, including Edge Function failures.
  • Experience with data migration problems (pg_dump/restore, schema drift, failed migrations).
  • Hands-on AWS experience and comfort in terminal and Linux environments.
  • Located within North or South American time zones; full-time.

What they offer

  • Fully remote with a co-working allowance
  • Equity (ESOP) for every team member
  • Tech allowance
  • Health insurance covered 100% for employees and 80% for dependents
  • Annual company off-site and an education allowance

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