Opportunity overview
What you should know
We checked this opportunity from Supabase. It is listed as Worldwide.
The work location is Remote — worldwide. Employer-stated compensation: Salary not included in the job posting.
Job description
About this role
We’re looking for a Postgres Deployment Engineer to join our PostgreSQL team and help elevate our PostgreSQL offerings. You’ll work closely with the PostgreSQL team, playing an instrumental role in technical decision-making and refining internal methodologies. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in async, fast-paced environments and is excited about building developer tools that scale to millions. The focus of this role is owning the stability and deployment of our products. You will act as a bridge between product and infrastructure teams to improve the reliability of deployments and upgrades.
Responsibilities
- Package software into our supabase/postgres repo using Nix (with flakes), and help us transition our packaging from traditional to Nix packaging more over time.
- Manage PostgreSQL lifecycles, ensuring timely major, minor, and extension upgrades.
- Expand platform release systems to allow developers to increasingly self-service.
- Optimize CI/CD and tooling, specifically expanding GitHub Actions, team tooling, and testing/release approaches.
- Resolve production issues by proactively identifying and fixing problems in customer deployments.
- Maintain best practices and tests to ensure enhanced stability and decreased deployment risks.
Qualifications and requirements
- Have 3+ years of experience with PostgreSQL and its ecosystem, including extensions and performance optimization.
- Are an Infrastructure Expert with proven experience in management, tooling, and optimization.
- Are proficient in the Nix package management system (including flakes) alongside Ansible, Packer, Docker, QEMU/KVM, AWS, and Kubernetes.
- Have experience building for multiple architectures, specifically Linux and Darwin/macOS aarch64 targets.
- Are comfortable with polyglot environments, including builds for C/C++, Go, JavaScript, and Rust-based projects.
- Communicate clearly across both technical and non-technical audiences, especially when interacting with customers.
- Have experience in async or globally distributed teams and value independent, proactive problem-solving.
- Are willing to mentor, taking on responsibility for teaching the engineering team to use and contribute to our Nix-based work.
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How this listing was checked
- Source status
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- Employer or source
- Supabase
- Source checked
- September 7, 2026
- Application destination
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- Work setup and location
- Remote · Remote — worldwide
- Who can apply
- Worldwide · Confirmed by source
- Pay
- Not stated by employer
- Deadline
- Not stated by employer
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