Postgres Deployment Engineer

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 Postgres Deployment Engineer to join our team and elevate our PostgreSQL offerings.
You'll work hand-in-hand with the PostgreSQL team and play an instrumental role in technical decision-making and refining internal methodologies.
The focus of this role is around owning stability and deployment of our products. This role involves ongoing contribution and co-responsibility for builds/deployments via our public supabase/postgres GitHub repository. This repository bundles an array of features/products into docker images and AWS AMIs, giving users the ability to run Supabase on our cloud and locally. This role will function has developed as a bridge between product and infrastructure teams to improve the reliability of product deployments and upgrades.
In this role, your primary responsibilities will include:
- Packaging software into our supabase/postgres repo to using either nix language with flakes, or debian packaging depending on our required target

- Supporting the expansion of knowledge in Supabase toward our platform release system so that developers can self service more and more over time.

- Expanding on our github actions, our team tooling, and our testing/release approaches

- Timely PostgreSQL major, minor, and extension upgrades.

- Engaging in proactive identification and resolution of production issues in customer deployments.

- Contributing to the creation/maintaining of best practices, tools, and tests to ensure enhanced stability and decreased deployment risks over time.

What we need 
This role demands the following pivotal qualities:
- PostgreSQL Expert : A profound understanding of PostgreSQL and its associated tools. Familiarity with extensions, performance optimization, and best practices is essential.

- Infrastructure : Proven expertise in infrastructure management, tooling, and optimization.

- Self-directed & Initiative : At Supabase, we value independence and proactive problem-solving. We anticipate you to be a dynamic self-starter, thriving in asynchronous collaboration across diverse teams. Your knack for spotting areas of improvement and commitment to realizing those enhancements will be key.

What you’ll do 
- Improv…

→ Supabase · Ashby