Senior Postgres Engineer - Remote, Build Extensions

Icehouseventures

United States

Remote

USD 150,000 - 230,000

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 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.

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