Site Reliability Engineer: Postgres

2 Months ago • 5 Years + • Devops

Job Summary

Job Description

Supabase is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to manage the infrastructure of their Postgres databases, supporting over 1 million instances. The role involves building the Supabase Postgres offering, focusing on improving backup and recovery reliability, implementing high availability with minimal downtime failover, and operationalizing database management for users through maintenance windows and blue-green deployments. Responsibilities include enhancing database observability for self-service debugging, optimizing performance of provisioned Postgres databases, improving system architecture for cost reduction while balancing security and performance, and designing CI/CD systems for efficient deployments with robust change management. The SRE will also handle escalated storage support tickets and share on-call responsibilities.
Must have:
  • 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
  • Designing multi-tenant database solutions
  • Designing for failover, fault-tolerance, and disaster recovery
Good to have:
  • Experience orchestrating stateful workloads at scale
  • Experience using Postgres operators (e.g., Zalando, Crunchy)
  • Experience with Postgres ecosystem tools (e.g., pgbackrest, barman, Patroni, Stolon)
Perks:
  • 100% remote work from anywhere in the world with no location-based salary adjustments
  • ESOP (equity ownership in the company)
  • Autonomous work with collaborative project involvement
  • Health, Vision and Dental benefits (Supabase covers 100% for employees, 80% for dependents)
  • Generous Tech Allowance for office setup
  • Annual Education Allowance
  • Annually run off-sites

Job Details

Supabase is an Open Source and fully remote company building developer tools for databases.

We are seeking an experienced SRE to manage the infrastructure of our Postgres databases. We currently manage over 1M Postgres instances and are growing fast.

You will:

  • 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.

You are:

  • 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

We offer:

  • 100% remote work from anywhere in the world. No location-based adjustment to your salary.

  • ESOP (equity ownership in the company)

  • Autonomous work. We work collaboratively on projects, but you set your own pace.

  • Health, Vision and Dental benefits. Supabase covers 100% of the cost for employees and 80% for dependents

  • Generous Tech Allowance for any office setup you need

  • Annual Education Allowance

  • Annually run off-sites.

 

About the team

  • We're a startup. It's unstructured.

  • Collectively founded more than 30 startups.

  • Globally distributed team with more than 30 different nationalities.

  • We deeply believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source. We support existing communities and tools, rather than building "yet another xx".

  • We "dogfood" everything. If you use it in your project, we use it in Supabase.

Process

  • The entire process is fully remote and all communication will happen over email or via video chat.

  • Once you've submitted your application, the team will review your submission and may reach out for a short screening interview over a video call.

  • If you pass the screen you will be invited to up to four follow-up interviews.

  • The calls:

    • usually take between 20-45 minutes each depending on the interviewer.

    • most of the time, are all 1:1.

    • will be with the founders, a member of either the growth or engineering team (depending on the role) and usually one other person from your immediate team or function.

  • Once the interviews are over, the team will meet to discuss several roles and candidates and may:

    • ask one or two follow-up questions over email or a quick call.

    • go directly to making an offer.

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