Performance Engineer - Performance Analysis & Tuning

The role

Performance engineers will find and land performance wins across the Supabase stack. You will identify bottlenecks in live production systems and build methodologies and tooling to turn data into actionable insight.

What you will do

• Find bottlenecks in live production systems and characterize them precisely.
• Partner with database and infra teams to land concrete performance improvements.
• Build, communicate, and evolve performance methodologies and tooling.
• Partner with the observability team to capture signals and establish a unified view of platform performance.
• Help teams self-serve performance analysis.

Required qualifications

• Deep experience in performance engineering, specifically performance analysis of complex distributed systems.
• Ability to follow a tail-latency problem from the query optimizer through the syscall boundary to the IO scheduler or across network paths.
• Depth on at least one end of the stack: Linux kernel internals (virtual memory, scheduling, networking, IO) or database internals (query planning, storage engines, buffer and WAL management).
• Strong working knowledge of networking and cloud infrastructure performance.
• Proven ability to turn performance insights into real product and architecture improvements.
• Strong written communication.
• Pragmatic, tooling-oriented mindset.

Benefits

• WeWork membership or co-working allowance
• ESOP (equity ownership)
• Tech Allowance
• 100% health insurance for employees
• 80% health insurance for dependents
• Annual Off-Sites
• Flexible Work
• Annual education allowance

About the company

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. It provides a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search.