OrioleDB Deployment Engineer (AMER)

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.

About the Role

We’re looking for an OrioleDB Deployment Engineer to join our OrioleDB Team and help elevate our OrioleDB offering. You’ll work closely with the OrioleDB team, playing an instrumental role in technical decision-making and refining internal methodologies.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in async, fast-paced environments and is excited about building developer tools that scale to millions.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Package software into our supabase/postgres repo using Nix (with flakes), and help us transition our packaging from traditional to Nix packaging more over time.
• Manage OrioleDB release lifecycles, ensuring timely major, minor, and extension upgrades.
• Expand platform release systems to allow developers to increasingly self-service.
• Optimize CI/CD and tooling, specifically expanding GitHub Actions, team tooling, and testing/release approaches.
• Resolve production issues by proactively identifying and fixing problems in customer deployments.
• Maintain best practices and tests to ensure enhanced stability and decreased deployment risks.
• Co-own the integration of OrioleDB into the Supabase product.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with PostgreSQL and its ecosystem, including extensions and performance optimization.
• Infrastructure expert with proven experience in management, tooling, and optimization.
• Proficient in the Nix package management system (including flakes) alongside Ansible, Packer, Docker, QEMU/KVM, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Experience building for multiple architectures, specifically Linux and Darwin/macOS aarch64 targets.
• Comfortable with polyglot environments, including builds for C/C++, Go, JavaScript, and Rust-based projects.
• Clear communication across both technical and non-technical audiences, especially when interacting with customers.
• Experience working in async or globally distributed teams with proactive problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to mentor and teach the engineering team to use and contribute to Nix-based workflows.
• Experience with integrating emerging features into widely used managed hosted product platforms.