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Posted Oct 6

Postgres Deployment Engineer

Own the stability and release pipeline of Supabase's open-source Postgres builds

AnywhereAsyncAny country, as long as you like

Supabase hires globally, works asynchronously and has no offices, so you can base yourself anywhere.

How long can you stay where you're going?
    Workspace budget
  • Equity (ESOP)
  • Annual company off-site
  • Health cover, 80% for dependents

The role

Supabase needs a Postgres Deployment Engineer to own builds, upgrades and releases of its supabase/postgres repo, shipped as Docker images and AWS AMIs. You'll bridge product and infrastructure teams and work with customers.

What you'll do

  • 1Package software into supabase/postgres using Nix flakes or Debian packaging
  • 2Run timely PostgreSQL major, minor and extension upgrades
  • 3Expand GitHub Actions, testing and release tooling
  • 4Find and fix production issues in customer deployments
  • 5Teach the engineering team to use and contribute to the Nix-based work

What they're looking for

Must-haves

  • 3+ years with PostgreSQL and its ecosystem
  • Ansible, Nix flakes, Packer, Docker, QEMU/KVM, AWS and Kubernetes
  • Builds for Linux and macOS aarch64 targets
  • Nix and conventional builds of C/C++, Go, JavaScript and Rust projects
  • Comfortable with regular customer interaction

Nice to have

  • Experience with PostgREST, Supabase Auth and other Supabase components
  • Contributions to significant open-source PostgreSQL projects

The company

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Supabase

Remote-first 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 across 60+ countries.

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