OrioleDB Deployment Engineer (AMER)

Excerpt from the original posting

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 a 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-owning the integration of OrioleDB into the supabase product

You Might Be a Good Fit If You 
- Have 3+ years of experience with PostgreSQL and its ecosystem, including extensions and performance optimization.

- Are an Infrastructure Expert with proven experience in management, tooling, and optimization.

- Are proficient in the Nix package management system (including flakes) alongside Ansible, Packer, Docker, QEMU/KVM, AWS, and Kubernetes.

- Have experience building for multiple architectures , specifically Linux and Darwin/macOS aarch64 targets.

- Are comfortable with polyglot environments , including builds for C/C++, Go, JavaScript, and Rust-based projects.

- Communicate clearly across both technical and non-technical audiences, especially when interacting with customers.

- Have experience in async or globally distributed teams and value independent, proactive problem-solving.

- Are willing to mentor , taking on responsibility for teaching the engineering team to use and contribute to our Nix-based work.

- Have experience with integration of emerging features into widely used manag…

→ Supabase · Ashby