--- title: "Performance Engineer - Performance Analysis & Tuning" company: "Supabase" company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/supabase" url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/supabase-performance-engineer-performance-analysis-tuning-92c93ad9-9c09-45b2-8f01-af20db52afbf" apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/98ef6a11-9898-4960-9931-1264285849f3" workplace: remote location: "Remote, Anywhere" remote_scope: "worldwide" employment_type: full-time seniority: mid role: software-engineering region: worldwide skills: ["aws", "linux", "postgres"] date_posted: 2026-07-28T09:41:57.229Z first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-08-26T15:14:54.704Z --- # Performance Engineer - Performance Analysis & Tuning **Supabase** — Remote, Anywhere Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/98ef6a11-9898-4960-9931-1264285849f3 ## About Supabase Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings. Start for free. ## About the role #### 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 hiring experienced performance engineers to find and land performance wins across the Supabase stack — from the query optimiser to block device level, and across the network paths and cloud infrastructure that connect our distributed platform. This is a performance *delivery* role: real, measured improvements to our database, platform, and APIs as we scale toward enterprise and platform-grade workloads. The methodologies you develop and tooling you build exist to multiply that delivery. You'd join a new performance team as one of its first members, working alongside a deeply seasoned performance engineer, with the team growing to roughly six this year. There's no legacy process to inherit — you'll help define how performance engineering works at Supabase. #### What you'll do - Find bottlenecks in live production systems and characterize them precisely enough that the owning team can act on them 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 (latency, throughput, tail behavior) across products. - Help teams self-serve performance analysis and make performance a first-class engineering concern. #### Problems you might work on - Tune the kernel's paging behavior to production workloads - Reduce memory overhead in OrioleDB and Multigres - Identify and eliminate sources of latency spikes from application to kernel level - Identify scalability bottlenecks across the entire stack and work the appropriate teams in Supabase and the wider community to resolve them #### What we're looking for - Deep experience in performance engineering, specifically performance analysis of complex distributed systems. - You can walk the whole stack: follow a tail-latency problem from the query optimizer through the syscall boundary to the IO scheduler — or across pooler hops, network paths, and availability zones — reading profiles and traces at every layer. - Depth on at least one end of that 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, and the performance characteristics of AWS primitives (EBS throughput and IOPS, instance network limits, placement groups, cross-AZ latency). - Proven ability to turn performance insights into real product and architecture improvements — including getting teams you don't belong to to prioritize and ship the fix. - Strong written communication: your problem characterisations are precise, reproducible, and compelling on their own. - Pragmatic, tooling-oriented mindset; comfort working across product, infra, and database teams. ##### What We Offer - Fully RemoteWe hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world. - ESOPEvery team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together. - Tech AllowanceUse this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work. - Health BenefitsSupabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family’s health are important to us. - Annual Off-SitesOnce a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year. - Flexible WorkWe operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when. - Professional DevelopmentEvery team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth. ##### About the Team Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love. - ~400 team members - 60+ countries - 20+ languages spoken - Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F) - 540,000+ community membersWe move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities. --- Source: Supabase's own career page, read by RemJobs. Canonical HTML version: https://www.remjobs.works/job/supabase-performance-engineer-performance-analysis-tuning-92c93ad9-9c09-45b2-8f01-af20db52afbf