Senior Postgres Engineer (Americas)

About the role

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. 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.

Key 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.

Required profile

• 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.

Required skills

• PostgreSQL
• C
• Rust

What we offer

• Fully remote work with global hiring.
• Equity ownership through ESOP.
• Tech allowance for equipment.
• 100% health insurance coverage for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Annual off‑site gatherings.
• Flexible asynchronous work schedule.
• Annual education allowance for professional development.