Description
About the Role
We're looking for a OrioleDB Deployment Engineer to join our OrioleDB Team and help elevate our OrioleDB offering. You'll work closely with the OrioleDB 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.
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 OrioleDB release 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.
- Co-owning the integration of OrioleDB into the supabase product
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.
- Have experience with integration of emerging features into widely used managed hosted product platforms
Benefits
- Fully Remote: We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.
- ESOP: Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we're building together.
- Tech Allowance: Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment,laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
- Health Benefits: Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family's health are important to us.
- Annual Off-Sites: Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It's a highlight of our year.
- Flexible Work: We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.
- Professional Development: Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning,courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.