Supabase
Postgres development platform
OrioleDBDeveloper
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“OrioleDB Developer at Supabase. Skills: OrioleDB, PostgreSQL, C programming, Database internals. Design and implement new capabilities in OrioleDB. Strengthen OrioleDB's reliability through deeper test coverage, fault injection, crash and recovery testing, and improvements to CI infrastructure”
What You'll Achieve.
Ensure regressions are caught early; OrioleDB behaves predictably under stress, replication, and failure scenarios; Shrinks what we maintain ourselves and benefits the wider community
Industry & Context.
Debug and resolve complex issues in low-level C code; Troubleshooting; Analyzing issues
Working overlap with Americas time zones due to production support and on-call responsibilities, On-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Expert C programmer with 8+ years of production experience with focus on low-level systems programming, Deeply familiar with PostgreSQL’s codebase, build system, and extension APIs, Experience designing or implementing database storage engines, index structures, or query execution components, Comfortable contributing to community‑driven, upstream open source projects, Proficient in debugging and profiling complex C code in a database context, Able to write clear technical documentation and explain design trade‑offs, A communicator, committed to an open and collaborative development process
Nice to Have
Existing PostgreSQL core contributor or have equivalent experience in Database internals
What You'll Do.
Design and implement new capabilities in OrioleDB
Strengthen OrioleDB's reliability through deeper test coverage
crash and recovery testing
and improvements to CI infrastructure
Contribute changes directly to PostgreSQL core
Ensure OrioleDB fits naturally into Supabase's managed offering and roadmap
and test new OrioleDB features and integrate them cleanly with PostgreSQL's planner
and surrounding subsystems
Build out and maintain test infrastructure
Identify and prepare patches suitable for upstreaming to PostgreSQL core
and operational tooling for production use
Debug and resolve complex issues in low-level C code
and query execution paths
Write clear technical documentation
and upstream proposals
supporting and maintaining oriledb postgres and bundled extensions in production deployments
Answering support ticket requests
Supporting team members in troubleshooting and fixing live customer production databases
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Participate in design discussions, architecture reviews, and code reviews — both inside Supabase and in the PostgreSQL community; Work with Supabase's Postgres team to ensure OrioleDB fits naturally into Supabase's managed offering and roadmap
Communication Scope
Open development process; Public code review; Clear technical documentation; Explain design trade‑offs; Open and collaborative development process
Full Job Description
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 an engineer to drive the evolution of OrioleDB https://www.orioledb.com and its collaboration with the upstream PostgreSQL community. OrioleDB is a next-generation storage engine for PostgreSQL, and this role sits at the intersection of database internals, open source community work, and Supabase's managed Postgres platform. This role requires strong working overlap with Americas time zones due to production support and on-call responsibilities. What you'll work on - New OrioleDB features. Design and implement new capabilities in OrioleDB — for example, native index access methods (GiST, GIN, HNSW for pgvector), disaster recovery tooling, and other storage-engine-level features that expand what OrioleDB can do. - Stability. Strengthen OrioleDB's reliability through deeper test coverage, fault injection, crash and recovery testing, and improvements to CI infrastructure. Ensure regressions are caught early and that OrioleDB behaves predictably under stress, replication, and failure scenarios. - Upstream collaboration. Contribute changes directly to PostgreSQL core. Part of OrioleDB lives as a patch on top of PostgreSQL — moving the right pieces upstream shrinks what we maintain ourselves and benefits the wider community. This happens through PostgreSQL's open development process: the pgsql-hackers mailing list, public code review, and commitfests. - Supabase integration. Work with Supabase's Postgres team to ensure OrioleDB fits naturally into Supabase's managed offering and roadmap. YOU WILL: - Design, implement, and test new OrioleDB features and integrate them cleanly with PostgreSQL's planner, executor, and surrounding subsystems. - Build out and maintain test
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