Performance Engineer - Performance Analysis & Tuning

Supabase
Anywhere
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Written communication","Problem-solving","Collaboration","Tooling-oriented mindset","Communication"]

Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks across the Supabase stack, from the query optimiser and database internals to kernel-level behavior and network/cloud paths. Build and evolve performance methodologies and tooling that convert production data into actionable insights, partnering with database, infrastructure, and observability teams. Help other teams self-serve performance analysis as you define performance engineering for a new team.

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Supabase
Supabase
1 month ago

Performance Engineer - Performance Analysis & Tuning

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Job Summary

Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks across the Supabase stack, from the query optimiser and database internals to kernel-level behavior and network/cloud paths. Build and evolve performance methodologies and tooling that convert production data into actionable insights, partnering with database, infrastructure, and observability teams. Help other teams self-serve performance analysis as you define performance engineering for a new team.
Location: Anywhere
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Find bottlenecks in live production systems and characterize them so owning teams can act without you present.
  • •Partner with database and infrastructure teams to deliver concrete performance improvements.
  • •Build, communicate, and evolve performance methodologies and tooling that turn production data into actionable insights.
  • •Work with observability to capture the right signals and unify platform performance views (latency, throughput, tail behavior) across products.
  • •Enable teams to self-serve performance analysis and make performance a first-class engineering concern.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote WorkEquityHealth InsuranceLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Deep experience in performance engineering, specifically performance analysis of complex distributed systems.
  • •Ability to trace tail-latency end-to-end across the stack, using profiles and traces at each layer (query optimizer through kernel and networking).
  • •Depth in either Linux kernel internals (virtual memory, scheduling, networking, IO) or database internals (query planning, storage engines, buffer and WAL management).
  • •Strong working knowledge of networking and cloud infrastructure performance, including TCP under load and AWS primitives such as EBS throughput/IOPS and cross-AZ latency.
  • •Proven ability to turn performance insights into concrete product and architecture improvements, influencing teams to prioritize and ship fixes.
Experience:Performance engineeringDistributed systemsCloud infrastructureObservabilityOpen source
Skills:Written communicationProblem-solvingCollaborationTooling-oriented mindsetCommunication
Tech Stack:PostgresPostgres development platformMultigresOrioleDBLinux kernelVirtual memorySchedulingNetworkingIOTCPNetwork virtualizationAWSEBSIOPSInstance network limitsPlacement groupsCross-AZ latencyWALBufferObservability

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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