# Postgres Deployment Engineer at Supabase

> Own the stability and deployment of Supabase's Postgres builds, bridging product and infrastructure teams to ship reliable upgrades.

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Location: Remote, Global (remote)
- Places: Remote
- Posted: 2026-10-06
- Team: Postgres team
- Work mode: Remote
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/48950725-e0d9-4025-92d9-f75e1b60ce45
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/postgres-deployment-engineer-supabase-kn77adaqw2ptwfn644az8q8kq18hbgzc

## The posting

Postgres Deployment Engineer
Supabase · Remote, Global

## **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](https://github.com/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](https://github.com/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