Performance Engineer - Performance Analysis & Tuning
Supabase · Engineering · Senior · 21d ago
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Anyone, anywhere in the world can apply.
“We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere.”
Over 400 team members distributed across more than 60 countries.
- Async-first
- Supabase operates asynchronously and trusts employees to manage their own schedules.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- Offers a global WeWork or co-working allowance alongside a tech allowance for home office setups.
- Annual retreat
- The entire company gathers once a year in a new city for a week-long off-site.
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About the role
As one of the first members of Supabase's new performance team, you will find bottlenecks across live production systems and land real performance wins from query planning down to the kernel and cloud infrastructure. This is a hands-on delivery role focused on improving latency, memory overhead, and throughput across services like OrioleDB and Multigres while helping establish platform-wide performance analysis tooling.
What you'll do
- Find and characterize performance bottlenecks in live production systems so owning teams can act on them.
- Partner closely with database and infrastructure teams to ship concrete improvements.
- Build and evolve performance methodologies and tooling that turn live production data into actionable insight.
- Work with the observability team to capture signals and establish unified visibility into latency, throughput, and tail behavior.
- Help product teams self-serve performance analysis and make performance a first-class engineering concern.
What you bring
- Deep experience in performance engineering and performance analysis of complex distributed systems.
- Ability to analyze full-stack latency from the query optimizer and poolers down to syscall boundaries and IO schedulers.
- Deep expertise in either Linux kernel internals (memory, scheduling, IO) or database internals (query planning, storage engines, WAL).
- Strong working knowledge of networking performance, TCP behavior under load, and AWS primitives.
- Proven track record of turning performance insights into shipped product and architectural improvements.
- Strong written communication skills for creating precise, reproducible problem characterizations.
About Supabase
Supabase is the open-source Postgres development platform providing database, auth, storage, edge functions, and vector search services. Built fully remote from day one, Supabase supports a global community of hundreds of thousands of developers.
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