Supabase

Performance Engineer - Benchmarking

Supabase
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2 months ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve cloud, database, and end-to-end benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing tooling
  • Define benchmark suites and reference workloads that reflect real customer behavior
  • Establish performance baselines and regression gates with variance tracking, environment control, and change detection
  • Create triage workflows, owner routing, and clear reproducible reports from benchmark results
  • Partner with database teams such as Multigres and OrioleDB to identify bottlenecks and deliver performance improvements
  • Build continuous benchmarking infrastructure that product teams can run on pull requests or locally
  • Improve load generators, workloads, and benchmark environments so results reliably represent product performance
  • Develop regression triage tooling using diffing, profiles, traces, and query-level attribution
  • Enable product teams to self-serve performance testing and root-cause analysis

Requirements

  • Deep experience in performance engineering, benchmarking, and profiling complex distributed systems
  • Experience owning benchmarking systems where reproducibility and variance control were important
  • Strong systems intuition across databases, storage, networking, and cloud infrastructure
  • Ability to work across product, infrastructure, and database teams
  • Pragmatic, tooling-oriented approach with strong communication skills

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with global hiring and a WeWork membership or coworking allowance
  • ESOP equity ownership for every team member
  • Technology allowance for equipment and work setup
  • Health insurance covered 100% for employees and 80% for dependents
  • Annual company off-site
  • Flexible asynchronous work environment
  • Annual professional development and education allowance

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About Supabase

201-500 employees

Supabase builds an open-source Postgres-based backend platform for developers, bundling database, authentication, storage, realtime APIs, edge functions, and vector search. It monetizes through a managed cloud service and enterprise offerings while remaining deployable self-hosted. Founded in 2020 and privately held, the company operates globally with a fully remote team. Developers use Supabase as a Firebase alternative to launch quickly and scale production applications on PostgreSQL.

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