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.
About the job
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
Postgres, Nix, Ansible, Packer, Docker, Qemu/Kvm, AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, C, C++, Go, JavaScript, Rust, Linux
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