Senior Elixir Engineer

Supabase, an innovative open-source Postgres application platform, is seeking a Senior Elixir Engineer to join their fully remote team. The role focuses on their Realtime and Supavisor products, which are critical infrastructure handling thousands of connected clients and millions of queries. The position requires expertise in building and scaling large multi-node Elixir systems, with a strong emphasis on performance optimization.

The successful candidate will work on enhancing security, performance, and scalability of core products, while improving developer experience through API design, documentation, and observability improvements. They'll join a globally distributed team of over 30 nationalities, working in an autonomous environment that deeply values open-source collaboration.

Supabase offers comprehensive benefits including location-independent compensation, full health coverage, education allowance, and tech setup support. The company maintains a startup culture with a strong focus on practical solutions and "dogfooding" their own products. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Elixir engineer passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems in a collaborative, open-source environment.

The role combines technical challenges of managing global infrastructure with the opportunity to directly impact product development and customer success. Ideal candidates should have deep Elixir expertise, performance optimization experience, and preferably advanced PostgreSQL knowledge.