Senior Elixir Engineer - Supabase, Remote (APAC)

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We’re looking to grow the Elixir team in the APAC region at Supabase on two projects specifically: Realtime and Supavisor.

About us
My name: Filipe Cabaço
My position: Senior Elixir Engineer
Company name: Supabase
Company website: https://supabase.com/
Company headquarters (country): US
Company info and history (how you’re using Elixir etc):
Supabase has used Elixir for a long time and we’ve been part of the community for a while. We participate in some events like Elixir Stream Week and we also collaborate on opensource projects like our libcluster Postgres Strategy . We really believe in the capabilities of Elixir and we have 4 products using it in production enviroments.

About the job
Job title: Senior Elixir Engineer (APAC)
Job description:
Supabase Realtime is written in Elixir and manages broadcasting database updates to thousands of connected clients for Supabase customers. We are beginning to work on our next iteration of Realtime, which uses Presence and Broadcast with Authorization to enable users to build interactive experiences.

Supabase Supavisor, also written in Elixir, handles thousands of database clients that run millions of queries using different SDKs. It’s an extremely performance focused product that handles low level APIs to connect to Postgres in the most effective ways, fully leveraging the features of Postgres and Elixir.

Supporting a global cluster of machines that have thousands of connected users sending thousands of messages per second or running thousands of queries per second presents several challenges and we need your help to tackle them. Join us for the next phase of growth.

Qualifications or experience required: Senior level
What the successful job applicant will be working on:

Work on our Realtime and Supavisor products by adding new features and improving security, performance and scalability.
Improve the overall DX, including designing our APIs and client libraries, writing docs and improving monitoring and observability for our users.
Directly support customers and 3rd party libraries interacting with our Elixir products

Position on remote work

Remote job: Yes
Remote restrictions: APAC

About the interview process

The entire process is fully remote and all communication will happen over email or via video chat.
Once you’ve submitted your application, the team will review your submission and may reach out for a short screening interview over a video call.
If you pass the screen you will be invited to up to four follow-up interviews.
The calls:
- usually take between 20-45 minutes each depending on the interviewer.
- most of the time, are all 1:1.
- will be with the founders, a member of either the growth or engineering team (depending on the role) and usually one other person from your immediate team or function.
Once the interviews are over, the team will meet to discuss several roles and candidates and may:
- ask one or two follow-up questions over email or a quick call.
- go directly to making an offer.