Postgres Deployment Engineer (Nix)

• Join the PostgreSQL team and help elevate Supabase's PostgreSQL offerings. • Play an instrumental role in technical decision-making and refining internal methodologies. • Own the stability and deployment of products, acting as a bridge between product and infrastructure teams to improve the reliability of deployments and upgrades. • Share responsibility for builds and deployments via the public supabase/postgres GitHub repository, which bundles features into Docker images and AWS AMIs for cloud and local use.

• Bring 3+ years of experience with PostgreSQL and its ecosystem, including extensions and performance optimisation. • Demonstrate proven infrastructure expertise in management, tooling, and optimisation. • Show proficiency in the Nix package management system (including flakes) alongside Ansible, Packer, Docker, QEMU/KVM, AWS, and Kubernetes. • Have experience building for multiple architectures, specifically Linux and Darwin/macOS aarch64 targets. • Work comfortably in polyglot environments including builds for C/C++, Go, JavaScript, and Rust-based projects. • Communicate clearly across both technical and non-technical audiences, especially when interacting with customers. • Bring experience in async or globally distributed teams and value independent, proactive problem-solving. • Be willing to mentor and take on responsibility for teaching the engineering team to use and contribute to Nix-based work.

• Bring experience contributing to open-source PostgreSQL extensions or Nix packaging for database systems. • Have a background in managing PostgreSQL major version upgrades at scale across cloud environments. • Show familiarity with GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and release automation.

• Package software into the supabase/postgres repo using Nix (with flakes) and help transition packaging from traditional to Nix packaging over time. • Manage PostgreSQL lifecycles, ensuring timely major, minor, and extension upgrades. • Expand platform release systems to allow developers to increasingly self-service. • Optimise CI/CD and tooling, specifically expanding GitHub Actions, team tooling, and testing/release approaches. • Resolve production issues by proactively identifying and fixing problems in customer deployments. • Maintain best practices and tests to ensure enhanced stability and decreased deployment risks.

• Work fully remotely from anywhere in the world with a WeWork membership or co-working allowance. • Receive ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. • Use a tech allowance to set up your ideal work environment. • Access 100% company-covered health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents. • Attend annual company off-sites in a new city each year. • Work flexibly and asynchronously with trust to manage your own time. • Receive an annual professional development allowance for courses, books, and conferences.

Supabase is the Postgres development platform built by developers for developers, providing a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. The company is born-remote and open-source-first with 280+ team members across 55+ countries, having raised $500M with over 500,000 community members.