Postgres Engineer

Supabase; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

ESOP

Tech Allowance

Health Benefits

Annual Off-Sites

Flexible Work

Professional Development

Job summary

Supabase is seeking a Senior Postgres Engineer to join the Postgres Team and expand the stability and functionality of our hosted Postgres offering. You will work with customers, partners, product, engineering, support and success to maintain a secure, stable, and scalable Postgres foundation.

This role thrives in async, fast-paced environments and focuses on building developer tools that scale to millions. Fully remote with global team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals: planner, executor, storage engine.
• Proven experience building PostgreSQL extensions in C and Rust.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL permissions: RLS, roles, grant systems.
• Experience troubleshooting production issues in managed PostgreSQL environments.
• Comfortable reading and navigating PostgreSQL source code.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain PostgreSQL extensions in C and Rust with deep internal understanding.
• Diagnose and resolve issues in managed PostgreSQL deployments, including core dumps and bottlenecks.
• Own idempotent deployment pipelines across thousands of running PostgreSQL instances.
• Manage extension ecosystems — compatibility, upgrades, conflict resolution.
• Work with background workers, shared memory, and hooks to build scalable features.
• Collaborate with customers, product, engineering, support, and success teams.

Skills

PostgreSQL internals

C extensions

Rust extensions

PostgreSQL permission model

production troubleshooting

idempotent deployments

multi-tenant architectures

reading PostgreSQL source

scale PostgreSQL

Tools

C

Rust

Job description

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 the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Postgres Engineer to join our Postgres Team and help maintain and expand the stability and functionality of our hosted Postgres offering . You’ll work closely with customers, partners, product, engineering, support and success, helping us maintain a secure, stable, performant, and functional Postgres foundation.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in async, fast-paced environments and is excited about building developer tools that scale to millions.

What you’ll own:

• 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

What you bring:

• 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 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.

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