Performance Engineer – Benchmarking

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Responsibilities

• ▹Build and evolve benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing tooling across cloud, database, and end-to-end layers
• ▹Define benchmark suites and reference workloads reflecting real customer behavior, evolving them as products change
• ▹Establish performance baselines and regression gates across products, including variance tracking and environment control
• ▹Build mechanisms that turn benchmark results into action: triage workflows, owner routing, clear reproducible reports
• ▹Partner closely with database teams (e.g. Multigres, OrioleDB) to identify bottlenecks and land concrete improvements
• ▹Enable the company to publish credible, repeatable performance numbers for customers and the market
• ▹Help teams self-serve performance testing and make performance a first-class engineering concern

Requirements

• ▹Deep experience in performance engineering, benchmarking, and profiling of complex distributed systems
• ▹Experience owning benchmarking systems where reproducibility and variance control mattered
• ▹Strong systems intuition across databases, storage, networking, and cloud infrastructure
• ▹Comfortable working across product, infra, and database teams
• ▹Pragmatic, tooling-oriented mindset with strong communication skills

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.