Site Reliability Engineer: Postgres

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.

We are seeking an experienced SRE to manage the infrastructure of our Postgres databases. We currently manage over 5M Postgres instances and are growing fast.

• Help build the Supabase Postgres offering.

• Focus on improving the reliability of database backups and recovery

• Implement high availability with minimal downtime failover

• Help operationalize database management for our users by implementing maintenance windows, blue-green deployments as part of database upgrades, etc.

• Help users self serve debug their databases by improving database observability

• Improve the performance of provisioned Postgres databases and expose knobs for our users to further tune their database performance

• Improve our system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security and performance.

• Design CI/CD systems to speed up deployments with proper change and release management processes.

• Escalated storage support tickets and sharing the on-call responsibility for the storage service.

• Experience in designing multi-tenant database solutions, designing for failover, fault-tolerance, and disaster recovery

• Experience with orchestrating stateful workloads at scale or having used a Postgres operator like the ones from Zalando or Crunchy is a plus

• Experience with tools in the Postgres ecosystem like pgbackrest, barman, Patroni, Stolon, etc

• 5+ years experience in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure

• 3+ years of experience in building with Golang

• Experience in managing large deployments on AWS

• Knowledge of networking

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools

• 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.

Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.

• 120+ team members

• 35+ countries

• 15+ languages spoken

• $396M raised

• 350,000+ community members

• 20,000+ memes posted (and counting)

We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities.

We keep things simple, async-friendly, and respectful of your time:

1. Apply – Our team will review your application.

2. Intro Call – A short video chat to get to know each other.

3. Interviews – Up to four calls with:

   • Founders

   • Future teammates

   • Someone cross-functional from product, growth, or engineering (depending on the role)

4. Decision – We may follow up with a final question or go straight to offer.

All communication is remote and we aim to move fast.