Postgres Core Contributor

Supabase
Dev/Engineering
🌏 Anywhere
Full Time
Job Filled or Expired!

Job Description

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

We are seeking Postgres Core Contributors to develop cloud-native functionality for PostgreSQL. This includes a number of improvements to the Postgres core with a goal to upstream everything possible.

You will:

Work as a core contributor to PostgreSQL, including a number of improvements to the Postgres core with a goal to upstream everything possible. Supabase aims to make PostgreSQL more “cloud native”, to leverage modern technology which can benefit developers and database administrators. This includes:

  • Database branching, snapshots, and “undo” functionality. Developers should be able to “fork” a database at a point in time.
  • Building for modern hardware and cloud system, especially leveraging scalable storage systems.
  • Better handling of active-active/multi-master replication.
  • Better handling of major version upgrades.

Supabase is a collaborative company. You will be working with existing communities open source communities to achieve these goals, including OrioleDB and other core contributors.

You are:

Any of the following:

  • An existing PostgreSQL core contributor.
  • An expert C or Rust programmer, with 8+ years of experience.

We offer:

  • 100% remote work from anywhere in the world. No location-based adjustment to your salary.
  • 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 dependants
  • Generous Tech Allowance for any office setup you need
  • Annual Education Allowance
  • Annually run off-sites.

We are a fully remote and globally distributed team. We hire internationally, inside and outside of the United States. We have a global salary structure vs location based pay adjustments and highly appreciate compensation transparency initiatives. The estimated salary range for this role is: $139,000 – $164,000 USD. The estimated total compensation: $150,000 — $250,000 USD.  

BUILD IN A WEEKEND. SCALE TO BILLIONS

Supabase adds auth, realtime, and restful APIs to Postgres without a single line of code.

Each project within Supabase is an isolated Postgres cluster, allowing customers to scale independently, while still providing the features that you need to build: instant database setup, auth, row level security, realtime data streams, auto-generating APIs, and a simple to use web interface.

We are a fully remote company.

Key Tech: Javascript, Typescript, Go, Elixir, PostgREST (haskell), Postgres, Pulumi.

About the team

  • We’re a startup. It’s unstructured.
  • Collectively founded more than a dozen venture-backed companies.
  • More than 10 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 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.
    • are all 1:1.
    • will be with both 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.