Performance Engineer – Performance Analysis & Tuning

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Find bottlenecks in live production systems and characterize them precisely enough for the owning team to act 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
• ▹Partner with the observability team to capture the right signals and establish a unified view of platform performance
• ▹Help teams self-serve performance analysis and make performance a first-class engineering concern

Requirements

• ▹Deep experience in performance engineering, specifically performance analysis of complex distributed systems
• ▹Ability to walk the whole stack: from the query optimizer through the syscall boundary to the IO scheduler, or across pooler hops, network paths, and availability zones
• ▹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: TCP behavior under load, network virtualization overhead, AWS primitives (EBS throughput/IOPS, instance network limits, placement groups, cross-AZ latency)
• ▹Proven ability to turn performance insights into real product and architecture improvements, including getting other teams to prioritize fixes
• ▹Strong written communication: precise, reproducible, compelling problem characterizations
• ▹Pragmatic, tooling-oriented mindset; comfort working across product, infra, and database teams

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Fully remote, hire globally, work from anywhere
• ▹ESOP equity ownership for every team member
• ▹Tech allowance to set up your ideal work environment
• ▹Health insurance: 100% covered for employees, 80% for dependents
• ▹Annual company-wide off-site
• ▹Flexible, asynchronous work
• ▹Annual professional development / education allowance

About the company

Supabase is an open-source, born-remote Postgres development platform with roughly 400 team members across 60+ countries, over $1B raised, and a 540,000+ member community.