Site Reliability Engineer: Postgres

You will:

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  Help build the Supabase Postgres offering.
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  Focus on improving the reliability of database backups and recovery
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  Implement high availability with minimal downtime failover
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  Help operationalize database management for our users by implementing maintenance windows, blue-green deployments as part of database upgrades, etc.
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  Help users self serve debug their databases by improving database observability
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  Improve the performance of provisioned Postgres databases and expose knobs for our users to further tune their database performance
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  Improve our system architecture to reduce costs while balancing security and performance.
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  Design CI/CD systems to speed up deployments with proper change and release management processes.
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  Escalated storage support tickets and sharing the on-call responsibility for the storage service.

You have:

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  Experience in designing multi-tenant database solutions, designing for failover, fault-tolerance, and disaster recovery
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  Experience with orchestrating stateful workloads at scale or having used a Postgres operator like the ones from Zalando or Crunchy is a plus
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  Experience with tools in the Postgres ecosystem like pgbackrest, barman, Patroni, Stolon, etc
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  5+ years experience in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure
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  3+ years of experience in building with Golang
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  Experience in managing large deployments on AWS
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  Knowledge of networking
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  Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools

We offer:

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  100% remote work from anywhere in the world. No location-based adjustment to your salary.
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  ESOP (equity ownership in the company)
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  Autonomous work. We work collaboratively on projects, but you set your own pace.
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  Health, Vision and Dental benefits. Supabase covers 100% of the cost for employees and 80% for dependents
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  Generous Tech Allowance for any office setup you need
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  Annual Education Allowance
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  Annually run off-sites.

About the team

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  We're a startup. It's unstructured.
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  Collectively founded more than 30 startups.
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  Globally distributed team with more than 30 different nationalities.
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  We deeply believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source. We support existing communities and tools, rather than building "yet another xx".
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  We "dogfood" everything. If you use it in your project, we use it in Supabase.

Process

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  The entire process is fully remote and all communication will happen over email or via video chat.
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  Once you've submitted your application, the team will review your submission and may reach out for a short screening interview over a video call.
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  If you pass the screen you will be invited to up to four follow-up interviews.
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  The calls:
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  usually take between 20-45 minutes each depending on the interviewer.
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  most of the time, are all 1:1.
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  will be with the founders, a member of either the growth or engineering team (depending on the role) and usually one other person from your immediate team or function.
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  Once the interviews are over, the team will meet to discuss several roles and candidates and may:
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  ask one or two follow-up questions over email or a quick call.
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  go directly to making an offer.