Postgres Engineer

## About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Postgres Engineer to join our Postgres Team and help maintain and expand the stability and functionality of our hosted Postgres offering. You’ll work closely with customers, partners, product, engineering, support and success, helping us maintain a secure, stable, performant, and functional Postgres foundation. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in async, fast-paced environments and is excited about building developer tools that scale to millions. ## 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 ## Requirements - Deep expertise in PostgreSQL internals - query planner, executor, and storage engine mechanics - Proven experience building PostgreSQL extensions in both C and Rust - Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL's permission model: RLS, roles, and grant systems - Experience troubleshooting production issues in managed PostgreSQL environments, including custom extension issues, performance bottlenecks, and resource contention - Comfortable building, testing, and owning idempotent deployments across thousands of running Postgres instances - Ability to read and navigate PostgreSQL source code confidently - Experience with multi-tenant database architectures - Experience running PostgreSQL at scale ## Benefits - Fully Remote - ESOP - Tech Allowance - Health Benefits - Annual Off-Sites - Flexible Work - Professional Development ## About the Team Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love. ## Hiring Process We keep things simple, async-friendly, and respectful of your time: - Apply – Our team will review your application. - Intro Call – A short video chat to get to know each other. - Interviews – Up to four calls with: - Team Leads - Future teammates - Someone cross-functional from product, growth, or engineering (depending on the role) - Someone from our leadership/founding team - Decision – We may follow up with a final question or go straight to offer. All communication is remote and we aim to move fast.