Requirements
- •Deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals - query planner, executor, and storage engine mechanics
- •Proven experience building PostgreSQL extensions in both C and Rust
- •Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL's permission model: RLS, roles, and grant systems
- •Experience troubleshooting production issues in managed PostgreSQL environments, including custom extension issues, performance bottlenecks, and resource contention
- •Comfortable building, testing, and owning idempotent deployments across thousands of running Postgres instances
- •Ability to read and navigate PostgreSQL source code confidently
- •Experience with multi-tenant database architectures
- •Experience running PostgreSQL at scale
What You'll Do
- •Build and maintain PostgreSQL extensions in C and Rust, with a deep understanding of internals — parser, planner, WAL mechanics, and MVCC
- •Diagnose and resolve issues in managed PostgreSQL deployments, including custom extension failures, core dump analysis, and performance bottlenecks
- •Own idempotent deployment pipelines across thousands of running PostgreSQL instances, including testing and rollout strategies
- •Manage complex extension ecosystems — compatibility, upgrade paths, and conflict resolution
- •Work with PostgreSQL's background worker framework, shared memory management, and hook system to build reliable, scalable functionality
- •Collaborate closely with customers, partners, product, engineering, support, and success teams to maintain a secure, stable, and performant Postgres foundation
Benefits
- •Fully Remote with WeWork membership or co-working allowance
- •ESOP (equity ownership)
- •Tech Allowance for work environment setup
- •Health Benefits covering 100% employee and 80% dependents health insurance
- •Annual Off-Sites for company gathering
- •Flexible Work with asynchronous operation
- •Professional Development allowance for education
About Supabase
Supabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service platform built on Postgres, giving developers a database, authentication, instant APIs, edge functions, realtime subscriptions, storage, and vector embeddings.
San Francisco, California, United States
251-500
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