Senior Elixir Engineer

Open source Postgres application platform building scalable database solutions
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
51 - 100 Employees
Enterprise SaaS · Database
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Description For 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.

Last updated 3 months ago

Responsibilities For Senior Elixir Engineer

  • Work on Realtime and Supavisor products by adding new features and improving security, performance and scalability
  • Improve developer experience including designing APIs and client libraries
  • Write documentation and improve monitoring and observability
  • Directly support customers and 3rd party libraries interacting with Elixir products

Requirements For Senior Elixir Engineer

PostgreSQL
  • Experience building and scaling large multi-node Elixir systems
  • Strong focus on latency and performance optimization
  • Advanced PostgreSQL knowledge (preferred)

Benefits For Senior Elixir Engineer

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Education Budget
  • 100% remote work from anywhere with no location-based salary adjustment
  • Autonomous work environment
  • Health, Vision and Dental benefits (100% coverage for employees, 80% for dependants)
  • Generous Tech Allowance for office setup
  • Annual Education Allowance
  • Annual off-sites
  • Collaborative open source environment
  • Globally distributed team with 30+ nationalities

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