Senior Postgres Engineer — Remote, Extensions & Scale

Icehouseventures; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; 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 help maintain and expand the stability and functionality of our hosted PostgreSQL offering, collaborating with customers, partners, product, engineering, support and success to ensure a secure, scalable Postgres foundation.

You’ll own PostgreSQL extensions in C and Rust, optimize deployments across thousands of instances, and work on internals including parser, planner, WAL, and MVCC, building scalable, secure

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals (query planner, executor, storage engines)
• Experience building PostgreSQL extensions in C and Rust
• Experience troubleshooting production PostgreSQL deployments
• Ability to read and navigate PostgreSQL source code confidently

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain PostgreSQL extensions in C and Rust
• Diagnose and resolve issues in managed PostgreSQL deployments
• Own idempotent deployment pipelines across thousands of running PostgreSQL instances
• Manage complex extension ecosystems — compatibility, upgrade paths, conflict resolution
• Work with PostgreSQL's background worker framework, shared memory management and hooks
• Collaborate with customers, partners, product, engineering, support and success teams to maintain a secure, stable Postgres foundation

Skills

PostgreSQL internals

C

Rust

Extensions development

Performance troubleshooting

Multi-tenant architectures

Job description

Supabase is seeking a Senior Postgres Engineer to join our Postgres Team and help maintain and expand the stability and functionality of our hosted PostgreSQL offering, collaborating with customers, partners, product, engineering, support and success to ensure a secure, scalable Postgres foundation.

You’ll own PostgreSQL extensions in C and Rust, optimize deployments across thousands of instances, and work on internals including parser, planner, WAL, and MVCC, building scalable, secure