Staff Backend Engineer
Flock Safety- Full Time
- Expert & Leadership (9+ years)
Candidates should possess a deep understanding of Postgres connection behavior, network protocols, and observability tooling, along with experience with tools like PgBouncer and Supavisor. Strong knowledge of multi-tenancy, workload isolation, and regional routing is essential, as is the ability to prototype new patterns for query shaping and routing logic.
The engineer will architect and maintain the connection pooling infrastructure, build intelligent query routing systems to support multi-tenancy and workload isolation, implement query shaping and prioritization strategies, collaborate with core database and edge teams to reduce latency and increase system resilience, and contribute to internal tooling for connection insights, query tracing, and failure diagnostics.
Open-source backend service for developers
Supabase provides an open-source backend as a service (BaaS) platform that helps developers and businesses create scalable applications more easily. It offers real-time databases, authentication, and storage solutions, all designed to integrate smoothly into existing workflows. This means developers can focus on building their applications without needing to spend a lot of time on backend development. Supabase operates on a freemium model, where users can access basic services for free, while advanced features are available through paid subscriptions. This approach allows it to cater to various user needs. What sets Supabase apart from its competitors is its open-source nature, which allows users to customize the platform and benefit from community-driven enhancements. The company aims to provide a reliable and efficient solution for developers, ensuring high uptime for applications that are critical to their users.