Postgres Deployment Engineer

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.