About Supabase

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.

About the Role

We're looking for a Postgres Deployment Engineer to join our team and elevate our PostgreSQL offerings.

You'll work hand-in-hand with the PostgreSQL team and play an instrumental role in technical decision-making and refining internal methodologies.

The focus of this role is around owning stability and deployment of our products. This role involves ongoing contribution and co-responsibility for builds/deployments via our public supabase/postgres GitHub repository. This repository bundles an array of features/products into docker images and AWS AMIs, giving users the ability to run Supabase on our cloud and locally. This role will function has developed as a bridge between product and infrastructure teams to improve the reliability of product deployments and upgrades.

In this role, your primary responsibilities will include:

• Packaging software into our supabase/postgres repo to using either nix language with flakes, or debian packaging depending on our required target
• Supporting the expansion of knowledge in Supabase toward our platform release system so that developers can self service more and more over time.
• Expanding on our github actions, our team tooling, and our testing/release approaches
• Timely PostgreSQL major, minor, and extension upgrades.
• Engaging in proactive identification and resolution of production issues in customer deployments.
• Contributing to the creation/maintaining of best practices, tools, and tests to ensure enhanced stability and decreased deployment risks over time.

What we need

This role demands the following pivotal qualities:

1. PostgreSQL Expert: A profound understanding of PostgreSQL and its associated tools. Familiarity with extensions, performance optimization, and best practices is essential.
2. Infrastructure: Proven expertise in infrastructure management, tooling, and optimization.
3. Self-directed & Initiative: At Supabase, we value independence and proactive problem-solving. We anticipate you to be a dynamic self-starter, thriving in asynchronous collaboration across diverse teams. Your knack for spotting areas of improvement and commitment to realizing those enhancements will be key.

What you’ll do

• Improve the utility and efficiency of our PostgreSQL offerings.
• Work with relevant teams to understand the issues around postgres stability, and apply those insights to the build/test/deploy AMI and Docker releases.
• Contribute to the enhancement of our public GitHub repositories, especially supabase/postgres.
• Develop and expand tooling and solutions within the Supabase ecosystem.
• Engage with customers routinely, ensuring our solutions resonate with their needs.
• Address and resolve GitHub and Support issues.

Must haves

• 3+ years experience with PostgreSQL and its ecosystem.
• Knowledge of ansible, Nix package management system (including nix flakes), packer, docker, qemu/kvm, aws, and kubernetes deployments is essential. Need experience with linux and darwin/macos aarch64 targets, as we maintain ability to bu