Remote OrioleDB Engineer for PostgreSQL & Open Source

supabase

United States

Remote

USD 180,000 - 280,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote
ESOP
Tech Allowance
Health Benefits
Annual Off-Sites
Flexible Work
Professional Development

Job summary

Supabase is seeking an experienced engineer to evolve OrioleDB and collaborate with the PostgreSQL community. You’ll work at the intersection of database internals, open source, and Supabase’s managed Postgres platform, with production support and on‑call responsibilities across Americas time zones.

You will design, implement, and test OrioleDB features, strengthen reliability, and contribute patches upstream while ensuring tight integration with Supabase’s PostgreSQL offerings.

Qualifications

  • Experience as a PostgreSQL core contributor or equivalent in database internals.
  • 8+ years of production C programming experience.
  • Deep familiarity with PostgreSQL codebase, build system, and extension APIs.
  • Experience designing or implementing database storage engines, index structures, or query execution components.
  • Comfortable contributing to open source projects and upstream collaborations.
  • Proficient in debugging and profiling complex C code in a database context.
  • Able to write clear technical documentation and explain design trade-offs.
  • Strong communication skills and collaborative approach to development.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and test new OrioleDB features and integrate them with PostgreSQL components.
  • Build and maintain test infrastructure: regression suites, fuzzing, and CI pipelines.
  • Prepare patches for upstream PostgreSQL core contributions.
  • Improve performance, resilience, monitoring, and operational tooling for production use.
  • Debug and resolve low‑level storage, replication, indexing, and query execution issues.
  • Participate in architecture reviews, design discussions, and code reviews.

Skills

PostgreSQL internals
C programming
Open source collaboration
Performance profiling
Technical documentation
Communication

Tools

Git
CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Supabase is seeking an experienced engineer to evolve OrioleDB and collaborate with the PostgreSQL community. You’ll work at the intersection of database internals, open source, and Supabase’s managed Postgres platform, with production support and on‑call responsibilities across Americas time zones.

You will design, implement, and test OrioleDB features, strengthen reliability, and contribute patches upstream while ensuring tight integration with Supabase’s PostgreSQL offerings.

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