Performance Engineer - Benchmarking

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 this role

We’re hiring experienced performance engineers to make performance measurement at Supabase rigorous, repeatable, and actionable by product teams. This role owns the benchmarking and profiling systems we use to detect regressions, explain performance changes, and publish credible numbers for customers and the market. You’ll build the tooling and the methodology and make it easy for product teams to use it correctly.

You’d join a new performance team as one of its first members, working alongside a deeply seasoned performance engineer. There’s no legacy process to inherit — you’ll help define how we measure and communicate performance metrics at Supabase.

What you’ll do

• Build and evolve benchmarking, profiling, and load-testing tooling (cloud, database, and end-to-end).
• Define benchmark suites and reference workloads that reflect real customer behavior.
• Establish performance baselines and regression gates across products (variance tracking, environment control, and detection of changes).
• Build mechanisms that turn benchmark results into action: triage workflows, owner routing, and clear, reproducible reports.
• Partner closely with database teams (e.g. Multigres, OrioleDB) to identify bottlenecks and land concrete performance 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.

What we’re looking for

• Deep experience in performance engineering, benchmarking, and profiling of complex distributed systems.
• Strong systems intuition (databases, storage, networking, cloud infrastructure).
• Comfortable working across product, infra, and database teams.
• Pragmatic, tooling-oriented mindset with strong communication skills.

What We Offer

• Fully Remote: We hire globally with a WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
• ESOP: Every team member receives equity ownership in the company.
• Tech Allowance: Budget to set up your ideal work environment.
• Health Benefits: 100% coverage for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Annual Off-Sites: Yearly company-wide gathering in a new city.
• Flexible Work: Asynchronous culture with trust in your time management.
• Professional Development: Annual education allowance for courses, books, and conferences.