About the role

Software Engineer at Supabase developing performance-focused distributed connection pooling solutions. Collaborating globally to tackle challenges in scaling systems to millions of users.

Responsibilities

Stability & performance — work on improvements that allow Supavisor to scale to customer demand while reducing operating costs
CI/CD & deployments — improve the deployment pipeline to enable low-impact upgrades, with zero downtime and avoiding dropping connections, including the transition to Kubernetes
Client & ORM compatibility — directly support customers, 3rd-party libraries, and ORMs (SQLAlchemy, Prisma, and others) that use Supavisor to connect to Supabase
Documentation — write clear documentation so users can get the most out of Supavisor
Feature development — add new capabilities and improve the overall developer experience, including APIs and client libraries
Support - resolve escalated support issues, participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews

Have experience developing and operating distributed systems at scale — stronger fit if in the database or infrastructure domain
Are comfortable writing Elixir, or have a strong enough systems background that you're willing to go deep — stronger fit if you have a deep Elixir/Erlang production background
Have experience with protocol development — stronger fit if specifically with the Postgres wire protocol
Are familiar with the ORM and database client ecosystem (SQLAlchemy, Prisma, or similar)
Have experience with CI/CD pipelines where minimizing customer impact was a key constraint
Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences
Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and moving quickly in an async, globally distributed team.