Multigres Engineer

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.

We're looking for an engineer to help build the future of distributed Postgres. You'll work on Multigres, our open-source distributed database system that brings horizontal scaling to Postgres.

In this role, you'll architect and implement critical distributed database infrastructure including sharding, consensus protocols, and materialization systems. You'll collaborate closely with our Postgres, networking, and infrastructure teams to push the boundaries of what's possible with distributed databases.

What You’ll Be Responsible for

• Design and implement query routing logic for sharded databases
• Build consensus and replication systems to support distribute durability
• Develop materialization pipelines for migrations and change data capture
• Contribute to connection pooling infrastructure and intelligent workload isolation
• Collaborate with the open-source community on Multigres development

You Might Be a Good Fit If You have

• This role requires deep technical expertise in distributed databases and systems. For detailed qualifications, see our contributor qualifications document.

Key areas of expertise

• Database sharding, relational algebra, and Postgres internals
• Consensus protocols (Raft, Paxos, FlexPaxos) and distributed transactions
• Stream processing, materialization, and change data capture
• Building robust, performant distributed systems with strong observability
• Low-latency infrastructure and network protocol optimization.

• ESOP

• Tech Allowance

• Health Benefits

• Annual Off-Sites

• Flexible Work

• Professional Development

Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.

About the Team

• ~400 team members
• 60+ countries
• 20+ languages spoken
• Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)
• 540,000+ community members

We 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.