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SupabaseSupabaseUnited States

Postgres Deployment Engineer

Own stability and deployment of PostgreSQL products. Package software with Nix, manage upgrades, optimize CI/CD, and resolve production issues. Requires 3+ years PostgreSQL experience and Nix proficiency.

Salary not listed
Remote3+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Package software into the supabase/postgres repo using Nix (with flakes) and transition packaging from traditional to Nix packaging.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience with PostgreSQL and its ecosystem, including extensions and performance optimization.
  • Infrastructure expertise with proven experience in management, tooling, and optimization.
  • Proficiency in the Nix package management system (including flakes) alongside Ansible, Packer, Docker, QEMU/KVM, AWS, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience building for multiple architectures, specifically Linux and Darwin/macOS aarch64 targets.
  • Comfortable with polyglot environments, including builds for C/C++, Go, JavaScript, and Rust-based projects.
  • Experience in async or globally distributed teams and value independent, proactive problem-solving.
  • Willingness to mentor and teach the engineering team to use and contribute to Nix-based work.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences, especially when interacting with customers.

Skills

PostgresNixAnsiblePackerDockerQemu/KvmAWSKubernetesGitHub ActionsCC++GoJavaScriptRustLinux

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