Remote Postgres Deployment Engineer

Supabase; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; 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 Postgres Deployment Engineer to join our PostgreSQL team and elevate our PostgreSQL offerings. You’ll own the stability and deployment of our products, bridging product and infrastructure to improve deployment reliability, with co-responsibility for builds and deployments via our public supabase/postgres GitHub repository.

You’ll collaborate across async, globally distributed teams and mentor the engineering group to use our Nix-based workflows, helping scale developer

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with PostgreSQL and its ecosystem, including extensions and performance optimization.
• Experience with Nix-based packaging and deployment tooling (flakes), and infrastructure tooling like Ansible, Packer, Docker, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Ability to work across polyglot environments (C/C++, Go, JavaScript, Rust) and mentor teams.

Responsibilities

• Package software into our supabase/postgres repo using Nix (with flakes) and transition 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.
• Optimize CI/CD and tooling, 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.

Skills

PostgreSQL ecosystem

Nix packaging (flakes)

Ansible

Packer

Docker

QEMU/KVM

AWS

Kubernetes

Multi-arch builds

C/C++

Go

JavaScript

Rust

Communication

Distributed teams

Mentoring

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Nix

Job description

Supabase is seeking a Postgres Deployment Engineer to join our PostgreSQL team and elevate our PostgreSQL offerings. You’ll own the stability and deployment of our products, bridging product and infrastructure to improve deployment reliability, with co-responsibility for builds and deployments via our public supabase/postgres GitHub repository.

You’ll collaborate across async, globally distributed teams and mentor the engineering group to use our Nix-based workflows, helping scale developer