Performance Engineer

What you’ll do

• Build and evolve benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing tooling (cloud, database, and end-to-end).
• Define benchmark suites and reference workloads that reflect real customer behavior (and evolve them as the products change).
• Establish performance baselines and regression gates across products (variance tracking, environment control, and detection of changes).
• Build mechanisms that turn benchmark results into action: triage workflows, owner routing, and clear, reproducible reports.
• Partner closely with database teams (e.g. Multigres, OrioleDB) to identify bottlenecks and land concrete performance improvements.
• Enable the company to publish credible, repeatable performance numbers for customers and the market.
• Help teams self-serve performance testing and make performance a first-class engineering concern.

Problems you might work on

• Build our continuous benchmarking infrastructure so product teams can spot performance regressions early. Ideally, teams can run benchmarks directly on PRs or locally while developing a feature.
• Analyze and eliminate issues with load generators, workloads or benchmark environments to ensure that benchmarks are reliable indicators for actual product performance.
• Build regression triage tooling that pinpoints what changed (diffing, profiles/traces, query-level attribution).
• Help product teams so they can analyze the root cause of performance regressions in benchmark environments themselves.

What we’re looking for

• Deep experience in performance engineering, benchmarking, and profiling of complex distributed systems. Specifically, you have owned benchmarking systems where reproducibility and controlling variance mattered.
• Strong systems intuition (databases, storage, networking, cloud infrastructure).
• Comfortable working across product, infra, and database teams.
• Pragmatic, tooling-oriented mindset with strong communication skills.

What We Offer

• 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.
• 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.
• Annual Off-Sites: Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun.
• Flexible Work: We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time.
• Professional Development: Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.