Performance Engineer - Benchmarking

Icehouseventures; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

ESOP ( equity ownership )

Tech allowance

Health benefits

Annual off-sites

Flexible work

Professional development

Job summary

Supabase is hiring experienced performance engineers to make benchmarking and profiling rigorous, repeatable, and actionable for product teams. You will join a new performance team as one of its first members and help define how we measure performance across products.

You'll build tooling, establish baselines, and publish credible numbers for customers and the market, while enabling teams to self-serve performance testing and keep performance as a first-class engineering concern.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in performance engineering, benchmarking, and profiling of complex distributed systems.
• Ability to own benchmarking systems and ensure reproducibility and variance control.
• Strong systems intuition across databases, storage, networking, and cloud infra.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing tooling (cloud, database, and end-to-end).
• Define benchmark suites and reference workloads that reflect real customer behavior.
• Establish performance baselines and regression gates across products.
• Build reports and triage workflows from benchmark results.
• Collaborate with database teams to identify bottlenecks and drive improvements.
• Enable publishing credible, repeatable performance numbers for customers.
• Help teams self-serve performance testing and elevate performance as a core discipline.

Skills

Benchmarking

Profiling

Performance engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Communication

Job description

ABOUT SUPABASE

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

We're hiring experienced performance engineers to make performance measurement at Supabase rigorous, repeatable, and actionable by product teams. This role owns the benchmarking and profiling systems we use to detect regressions, explain performance changes, and publish credible numbers for customers and the market. You'll build the tooling and the methodology and make it easy for product teams to use it correctly.

You'd join a new performance team as one of its first members, working alongside a deeply seasoned performance engineer, with the team growing to roughly six this year. There's no legacy process to inherit — you'll help define how we measure and communicate performance metrics at Supabase.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Build and evolve benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing tooling (cloud, database, and end-to-end).
• Define benchmark suites and reference workloads that reflect real customer behavior (and evolve them as the products change).
• Establish performance baselines and regression gates across products (variance tracking, environment control, and detection of changes).
• Build mechanisms that turn benchmark results into action: triage workflows, owner routing, and clear, reproducible reports.
• Partner closely with database teams (e.g. Multigres, OrioleDB) to identify bottlenecks and land concrete performance improvements.
• Enable the company to publish credible, repeatable performance numbers for customers and the market.
• Help teams self-serve performance testing and make performance a first-class engineering concern.

PROBLEMS YOU MIGHT WORK ON

• Build our continuous benchmarking infrastructure so product teams can spot performance regressions early. Ideally, teams can run benchmarks directly on PRs or locally while developing a feature.
• Analyze and eliminate issues with load generators, workloads or benchmark environments to ensure that benchmarks are reliable indicators for actual product performance.
• Build regression triage tooling that pinpoints what changed (diffing, profiles/traces, query-level attribution).
• Help product teams so they can analyze the root cause of performance regressions in benchmark environments themselves.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Deep experience in performance engineering, benchmarking, and profiling of complex distributed systems. Specifically, you have owned benchmarking systems where reproducibility and controlling variance mattered.
• Strong systems intuition (databases, storage, networking, cloud infrastructure).
• Comfortable working across product, infra, and database teams.
• Pragmatic, tooling-oriented mindset with strong communication skills.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Fully Remote

  We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.

• ESOP

  Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.

• Tech Allowance

  Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.

• Health Benefits

  Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family's health are important to us.

• Annual Off-Sites

  Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year.

• Flexible Work

  We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.

• Professional Development

  Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.

• ~400 team members
• 60+ countries
• 20+ languages spoken
• Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)
• 540,000+ community members

We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it's in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities.