Performance Engineer – Benchmarking

Supabase

Performance Engineer at Supabase responsible for benchmarking and profiling systems to enhance product performance. Collaborating with teams to ensure actionable performance metrics and improvements.

Posted 7/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🌎 Anywhere in the WorldMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in performance engineering, benchmarking, and profiling of complex distributed systems, with a strong focus on building and evolving performance testing tools and infrastructure. Capable of collaborating across product, infrastructure, and database teams to drive performance improvements and establish reliable performance metrics.

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Performance EngineeringBenchmarkingProfilingCloud InfrastructureDatabase Systems

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Hard Skills

Benchmark SuitesLoad TestingPerformance BaselinesRegression GatesVariance TrackingTriage WorkflowsPerformance MetricsRoot Cause AnalysisDiffingQuery-Level Attribution

Soft Skills

Strong Communication SkillsPragmatic Mindset

Tools & Technologies

Load GeneratorsBenchmark EnvironmentsContinuous Benchmarking Infrastructure

Industry Keywords

Distributed SystemsDatabase PerformanceCloud InfrastructurePerformance Testing

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 (and evolve them as the products change).
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.
Build our continuous benchmarking infrastructure so product teams can spot performance regressions early.
Analyze and eliminate issues with load generators, workloads or benchmark environments to ensure that benchmarks are reliable indicators for actual product performance.
Build regression triage tooling that pinpoints *what changed* (diffing, profiles/traces, query-level attribution).
Help product teams so they can analyze the root cause of performance regressions in benchmark environments themselves.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully Remote
ESOP
Tech Allowance
Health Benefits
Annual Off-Sites
Flexible Work
Professional Development