Performance Engineer - Performance Analysis & Tuning
Core
Find and resolve performance bottlenecks across the Supabase stack from query optimizers to block devices and network paths to deliver measured improvements to database, platform, and APIs.
Role type
Senior IC performance engineer (distributed systems & database internals)
Builds
Production performance improvements for database, platform, and APIs
Domain
Cloud infrastructure + distributed database systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
performance analysis of complex distributed systems, Linux kernel internals, database internals, networking under load, cloud infrastructure performance, tooling development, cross-team collaboration
Preferred skills
deep expertise in either Linux kernel or database internals, experience with AWS primitives
Technologies
Linux kernel, OrioleDB, Multigres, AWS (EBS, placement groups), TCP, network virtualization
Responsibilities
Characterize production bottlenecks for owning teams to resolve, partner with database and infra teams on performance improvements, build performance methodologies and tooling, collaborate with observability teams on unified performance views, enable self-service performance analysis
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
