supabase - Postgres Deployment Engineer (Nix)

Remote - Anywhere+ Equity7mo ago

Remote Mid WW Cloud Computing Utilities Platform Engineer Release Engineer AWS Ansible Docker Kubernetes Go

Requirements

• 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 build for both architectures • Must have experience with conventional and nix-packaged builds of C/C++, Go, javascript, and Rust based projects • Exposure to public cloud platforms and deployment methodologies. • Eagerness to improve and expand our development tools/stack. • Comfortable with regular interactions with customers • Willingness to work on an “integrated” system and approach to packaging. For many reasons, we cannot apply nix packaging to every component in our stack, nor can we just adopt Nixos in production. We have successfully laid the foundation for integrating conventional and Nix-based systems, with carefully validated choices including using flakes, etc. So, you must be willing to work within and help optimize this paradigm toward our platform development. • Must be willing to take on co-responsibility for teaching our engineering team to learn, use and contribute to our Nix-based work, and help troubleshoot and solve issues around the whole platform/postgres stack. • Experience with PostgREST, gotrue/supabase auth, and other Supabase stack components. • Contributions to significant, open-source projects in the PostgreSQL domain.

Responsibilities

• 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. • This role demands the following pivotal qualities: • Infrastructure: Proven expertise in infrastructure management, tooling, and optimization. • 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. • 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.

Benefits

• We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world. • Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together. • Tech Allowance • Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work. • Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family’s health are important to us. • Annual Off-Sites • Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year. • Flexible Work • We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when. • Professional Development • Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.