Supabase
Performance Engineer - Performance Analysis & Tuning
Full-timeNot specifiedRemoteRemoteNot disclosedApply by 26 Sept 2026
Overview
ABOUT SUPABASE Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.
What you'll do
- This is a performance delivery role: real, measured improvements to our database, platform, and APIs as we scale toward enterprise and platform-grade workloads.
- The methodologies you develop and tooling you build exist to multiply that delivery.
- You'd join a new performance team as one of its first members, working alongside a deeply seasoned performance engineer, with the team growing to roughly six this year.
- There's no legacy process to inherit, you'll help define how performance engineering works at Supabase.
- Find bottlenecks in live production systems and characterize them precisely enough that the owning team can act on them without you in the room.
- Partner closely with database teams (e.g.
- Multigres, OrioleDB) and infra teams to land concrete performance improvements.
- Build, communicate, and evolve performance methodologies and tooling that turn live production data into actionable insight.
Requirements
- Practical experience with Rust, AWS, Postgres, RAG.
- Relevant academic or project background for a Performance Engineer - Performance Analysis & Tuning role.
- Strong written and verbal communication in English.
- Comfortable working remotely with distributed teams.
Skills
RustAWSPostgresRAGScala