Senior Postgres Engineer - Remote, Build Extensions

Icehouseventures; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; 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, maintaining and expanding a hosted Postgres offering. You will work with customers, product, engineering, and success teams to ensure a secure, stable, and scalable Postgres foundation.

The role requires strong overlap with Americas time zones for production support and on-call duties, and offers a fully remote work model with global benefits and ESOP.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL internals: planner, executor, storage engines.
• Proven track record building PostgreSQL extensions in C and Rust.
• Strong grasp of PostgreSQL permission model: RLS, roles, grants.
• Experience diagnosing issues in managed PostgreSQL deployments.
• Experience deploying and testing idempotent deployment pipelines.
• Ability to navigate and read PostgreSQL source code confidently.
• Familiarity with multi-tenant database architectures and scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain PostgreSQL extensions in C and Rust with internals expertise.
• Diagnose issues in managed deployments, analyze core dumps and bottlenecks.
• Own idempotent deployment pipelines across thousands of instances.
• Manage extension ecosystems: compatibility, upgrades and conflicts.
• Collaborate with customers, product, engineering and support to ensure reliability.
• Work with background workers, shared memory, and hooks to scale features.

Skills

PostgreSQL internals

PostgreSQL extensions (C)

PostgreSQL extensions (Rust)

PostgreSQL permission model

production issue troubleshooting

idempotent deployments

multi-tenant databases

reading PostgreSQL source code

Job description

Supabase is seeking a Senior Postgres Engineer to join the Postgres Team, maintaining and expanding a hosted Postgres offering. You will work with customers, product, engineering, and success teams to ensure a secure, stable, and scalable Postgres foundation.

The role requires strong overlap with Americas time zones for production support and on-call duties, and offers a fully remote work model with global benefits and ESOP.