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Posted Sep 23

Senior Database Support Engineer (Japanese)

Untangle hard Postgres problems for Japanese-speaking developers building on a backend platform

Within a regionAnywhere in Asia-Pacific, as long as you like

Open to Asia-Pacific and async, but you need to cover Japan business hours.

How long can you stay where you're going?
    Workspace budget
  • Equity (ESOP)
  • Annual company off-sites
  • Education allowance

The role

Supabase needs a fluent Japanese and English speaker to resolve advanced Postgres, Auth and Edge Functions issues for customers. You'll work with engineering to turn real support cases into product and docs improvements.

What you'll do

  • 1Resolve advanced customer issues across Postgres, Auth, Storage and Edge Functions
  • 2Reproduce bugs, find root causes and escalate to engineering with clear steps
  • 3Advise advanced users on optimizing workloads and avoiding common pitfalls
  • 4Spot patterns across tickets and recommend docs, tooling and product fixes
  • 5Mentor junior team members and raise support quality

What they're looking for

Must-haves

  • Fluent Japanese and English
  • Experience supporting complex technical products in Japanese
  • 6+ years in technical support, backend engineering or SRE
  • Deep PostgreSQL knowledge and strong SQL query optimization
  • Hands-on AWS, Linux and terminal experience

Nice to have

  • Based in Japan

The company

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Supabase

Born-remote Postgres platform, 60+ countries

Supabase is an open-source Postgres development platform offering database, auth, storage, edge functions, realtime and vector search. It's a born-remote team of about 400 people in 60+ countries.

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