Performance Engineer - Benchmarking

Supabase
Anywhere
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Tooling mindset"]

Own Supabase’s benchmarking and profiling systems to detect performance regressions, explain performance changes, and publish credible customer-facing metrics. Build benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing tooling across cloud, database, and end-to-end flows, define benchmark suites and workloads, and establish regression gates. Create actionable triage workflows and partner with database teams like Multigres and OrioleDB to identify bottlenecks and drive concrete improvements.

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Supabase
Supabase
1 month ago

Performance Engineer - Benchmarking

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Job Summary

Own Supabase’s benchmarking and profiling systems to detect performance regressions, explain performance changes, and publish credible customer-facing metrics. Build benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing tooling across cloud, database, and end-to-end flows, define benchmark suites and workloads, and establish regression gates. Create actionable triage workflows and partner with database teams like Multigres and OrioleDB to identify bottlenecks and drive concrete improvements.
Location: Anywhere
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and evolve benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing tooling across cloud, database, and end-to-end systems.
  • •Define benchmark suites and reference workloads that reflect real customer behavior and keep them updated as products change.
  • •Establish performance baselines and regression gates, including variance tracking and environment control to detect changes.
  • •Create mechanisms to turn benchmark results into action, including triage workflows, owner routing, and reproducible reports.
  • •Partner with database teams (e.g., Multigres, OrioleDB) to identify bottlenecks and land concrete performance improvements.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceEquityLearning BudgetRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •Deep experience in performance engineering, benchmarking, and profiling for complex distributed systems, including owning benchmarking systems where reproducibility and variance control mattered.
  • •Strong systems intuition across databases, storage, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
  • •Experience building and evolving benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing tooling with cloud, database, and end-to-end coverage.
  • •Ability to define benchmark suites and reference workloads that reflect real customer behavior and evolve with product changes.
  • •Pragmatic, tooling-oriented mindset with strong communication skills for working across product, infra, and database teams.
Experience:Distributed systemsPerformance engineering
Skills:CommunicationTooling mindset
Tech Stack:PostgresCloudDatabasesStorageNetworkingMultigresOrioleDB

Company Brief

Supabase
Provides an open-source backend as a service built on PostgreSQL, offering real-time APIs, authentication, storage, and edge functions to help developers quickly build and scale applications.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2020
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