Postgres Engineer at Supabase

Supabase

Remote·5h ago

Mid LevelFull-timeRustPostgreSQLGo

Salary Range

$102,000 - $138,000 /year

Estimated

This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Postgres Engineer to join our Postgres Team at Supabase 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 teams to maintain a secure, stable, performant, and functional Postgres foundation.

Key Responsibilities

→Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL internals
→Hands-on experience building extensions in C and Rust
→Understand how PostgreSQL works under the hood, from the parser and planner to WAL mechanics and MVCC implementation
→Strong troubleshooting skills for managed PostgreSQL deployments
→Comfortable building testing and owning idempotent deployment to many thousands of running Postgres instances
→Work with complex extension ecosystems and understand extension compatibility, upgrade paths, and potential conflicts
→Experience with PostgreSQL's background worker framework, shared memory management, and hook system

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
✓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