Software Engineer - Supavisor

Responsibilities

• Improve stability and performance of Supavisor to scale with customer demand while reducing operating costs
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines for zero-downtime deployments and Kubernetes migration without dropping connections
• Support customers, third-party libraries, and ORMs (SQLAlchemy, Prisma, and others) using Supavisor
• Write clear documentation to help users maximize Supavisor capabilities
• Develop new features and improve APIs and client libraries for better developer experience
• Resolve escalated support issues and participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews

Requirements

• Experience developing and operating distributed systems at scale, ideally in databases or infrastructure
• Comfort with Elixir or strong systems background with willingness to go deep; production Elixir/Erlang experience preferred
• Protocol development experience, especially with the Postgres wire protocol
• Familiarity with ORM and database client ecosystems
• CI/CD pipeline experience with strict constraints on customer impact
• Clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working effectively in async, globally distributed teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hot code reload or other zero-downtime deployment techniques
• Open source project maintenance or contribution experience
• Production debugging under pressure in an on-call capacity

Benefits

• Fully remote with WeWork membership or co-working allowance
• ESOP equity ownership for all team members
• Tech allowance for home office setup
• 100% health insurance coverage for employees, 80% for dependents
• Annual company off-sites in new cities
• Flexible async work environment
• Annual professional development education allowance

About the Company

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. The company provides a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. Born remote and open-source-first, Supabase operates with 280+ team members across 55+ countries, serving 500,000+ community members.