Postgres Deployment Engineer (Nix)

Supabase
Anywhere
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Product ManagementExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Async collaboration","Independent problem-solving","Clear communication","Mentorship","Proactive ownership"]

Own the stability, deployment, and upgrade lifecycle of Supabase’s PostgreSQL offerings. Package and release supabase/postgres using Nix, manage Postgres lifecycles and extensions, and expand self-service platform release systems. Improve CI/CD and tooling (including GitHub Actions) while proactively triaging production issues from customer deployments to reduce deployment risk and increase reliability.

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Supabase
Supabase
4 months ago

Postgres Deployment Engineer (Nix)

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Job Summary

Own the stability, deployment, and upgrade lifecycle of Supabase’s PostgreSQL offerings. Package and release supabase/postgres using Nix, manage Postgres lifecycles and extensions, and expand self-service platform release systems. Improve CI/CD and tooling (including GitHub Actions) while proactively triaging production issues from customer deployments to reduce deployment risk and increase reliability.
Location: Anywhere
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management

Key Responsibilities

  • •Package software in the supabase/postgres repo using Nix (flakes) and transition packaging from traditional approaches to Nix.
  • •Manage PostgreSQL lifecycles, including timely major, minor, and extension upgrades.
  • •Expand platform release systems to enable developer self-service.
  • •Optimize CI/CD and tooling, including expanding GitHub Actions, team tooling, and testing/release approaches.
  • •Proactively identify and resolve production issues in customer deployments while maintaining best practices and tests to reduce deployment risks.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceEsopTech AllowanceLearning BudgetCo-working Allowance

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of experience with PostgreSQL and its ecosystem, including extensions and performance optimization.
  • •Infrastructure experience managing tooling and optimizing systems for deployments and upgrades.
  • •Proficiency with Nix package management (including flakes) and tools such as Ansible, Packer, Docker, QEMU/KVM, AWS, and Kubernetes.
  • •Experience building for multiple architectures, specifically Linux and Darwin/macOS aarch64 targets.
  • •Comfort working across polyglot build environments and communicating clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience:3+ yearsOpen-sourceDeveloper toolsPostgreSQL
Skills:Async collaborationIndependent problem-solvingClear communicationMentorshipProactive ownership
Tech Stack:PostgreSQLNixFlakesAnsiblePackerDockerQEMU/KVMAWSKubernetesGitHub ActionsLinuxDarwinMacOS aarch64CC++GoJavaScriptRustDocker imagesAWS AMIs

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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