Senior Postgres Engineer — Remote, ESOP & Scalable DBs

supabase; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 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 our Postgres Team and enhance the stability and functionality of our hosted Postgres offering. You will work with customers, partners, product, engineering, support, and success to maintain a secure, stable, and fast Postgres foundation.

This role thrives in async, fast-paced environments and focuses on building developer tools that scale to millions, with strong overlap across Americas time zones for production support.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals — planner, executor, MVCC.
• Proven experience building PostgreSQL extensions in C and Rust.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL’s permission model: RLS, roles, grants.
• Experience troubleshooting production issues in managed PostgreSQL environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain PostgreSQL extensions in C and Rust, with a deep understanding of internals — parser, planner, WAL mechanics, and MVCC
• Diagnose and resolve issues in managed PostgreSQL deployments, including custom extension failures, core dump analysis, and performance bottlenecks
• Own idempotent deployment pipelines across thousands of running PostgreSQL instances, including testing and rollout strategies
• Manage complex extension ecosystems — compatibility, upgrade paths, and conflict resolution
• Work with PostgreSQL's background worker framework, shared memory management, and hook system to build reliable, scalable functionality
• Collaborate closely with customers, partners, product, engineering, support, and success teams to maintain a secure, stable, and performant Postgres foundation

Skills

PostgreSQL internals

C extensions

Rust extensions

Performance tuning

Production debugging

Multi-tenant architectures

On-call support

Tools

PostgreSQL

C

Rust

Linux

Job description

Supabase is seeking a Senior Postgres Engineer to join our Postgres Team and enhance the stability and functionality of our hosted Postgres offering. You will work with customers, partners, product, engineering, support, and success to maintain a secure, stable, and fast Postgres foundation.

This role thrives in async, fast-paced environments and focuses on building developer tools that scale to millions, with strong overlap across Americas time zones for production support.