Remote Postgres Deployment Engineer (Nix)

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

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP

Health Benefits

Tech Allowance

Annual Off-Sites

Flexible Work

Professional Development

Job summary

Supabase is hiring a Postgres Deployment Engineer to own stability and deployment of our PostgreSQL offerings. You’ll bridge product and infrastructure teams to improve reliability of deployments and upgrades, with co-responsibility for builds via our public supabase/postgres GitHub repo.

This is a fully remote role for a globally distributed team. You will package software with Nix, manage lifecycles, and expand self-service across deployments while refining CI/CD practices and tooling to

Qualifications

• 3+ years of PostgreSQL experience and performance optimization.
• Experience deploying and maintaining large-scale PostgreSQL deployments.
• Strong problem-solving and customer-facing communication.

Responsibilities

• Package software into our 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.
• 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

Nix (flakes)

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

AWS

Kubernetes

Linux

Go/Rust/C/C++

GitHub Actions

QEMU/KVM

Tools

Nix tooling

Docker

GitHub Actions

Packer

QEMU/KVM

Job description

Supabase is hiring a Postgres Deployment Engineer to own stability and deployment of our PostgreSQL offerings. You’ll bridge product and infrastructure teams to improve reliability of deployments and upgrades, with co-responsibility for builds via our public supabase/postgres GitHub repo.

This is a fully remote role for a globally distributed team. You will package software with Nix, manage lifecycles, and expand self-service across deployments while refining CI/CD practices and tooling to