Supabase is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to own the infrastructure powering our hosted Postgres databases. You will be responsible for improving the reliability, availability, performance, and cost-efficiency of our database platform for users worldwide.
What You'll Do
- Help build and evolve the Supabase Postgres offering.
- Improve the reliability of database backups and recovery processes.
- Implement high availability with minimal downtime failover.
- Operationalize database management for users by implementing features like maintenance windows and blue-green deployments for upgrades.
- Help users self-serve debug their databases by improving database observability.
- Improve the performance of provisioned Postgres databases and expose knobs for users to further tune performance.
- Improve system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security and performance.
- Design CI/CD systems to speed up deployments with proper change and release management processes.
- Handle escalated storage support tickets and share on-call responsibility for the storage service.
What We're Looking For
- Experience in designing multi-tenant database solutions, designing for failover, fault-tolerance, and disaster recovery.
- 5+ years experience in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure.
- 3+ years of experience building with Golang.
- Experience managing large deployments on AWS.
- Knowledge of networking.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools.
Nice to Have
- Experience orchestrating stateful workloads at scale or using a Postgres operator like those from Zalando or Crunchy.
- Experience with tools in the Postgres ecosystem like pgbackrest, barman, Patroni, or Stolon.
Technical Stack
- Postgres
- Golang
- AWS
- pgbackrest, barman, Patroni, Stolon
- Infrastructure as Code tools
Team & Environment
You'll join a 120+ person, globally distributed team. Being born-remote and distributed is our secret weapon, enabling us to move fast and build in public.
Benefits & Compensation
- Fully Remote work with WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
- ESOP (equity ownership) for every team member.
- Tech allowance to set up your ideal work environment.
- Health insurance: 100% covered for employees, 80% for dependents.
- Annual company off-site in a new city.
- Flexible, asynchronous work.
- Annual professional development/education allowance.
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position open to talent in 35+ countries. We are a born-remote, asynchronous-first company.
Supabase is an equal opportunity employer.
