Senior Elixir Engineer (APAC)

As a Senior Elixir Engineer at Supabase, you'll be responsible for enhancing both our Realtime and Supavisor products. This includes adding new features, improving performance and security, and ensuring scalability. You'll also design APIs and client libraries, support customers, and help write documentation to improve the developer experience.

To qualify for the Senior Elixir Engineer position at Supabase, you should have extensive experience building and scaling large multi-node Elixir systems. A deep understanding of Postgres is a plus, and a strong focus on performance and latency management is crucial for success in this role.

Yes, the Senior Elixir Engineer role at Supabase is entirely remote! We believe in offering flexibility to our employees, allowing you to work from anywhere in the world with no location-based salary adjustments.

The interview process for the Senior Elixir Engineer role at Supabase is fully remote and consists of a screening interview followed by up to four one-on-one interviews. These discussions typically focus on your experience, technical skills, and how you can contribute to our team.

Senior Elixir Engineers at Supabase enjoy a variety of attractive benefits including 100% remote work, full health coverage, a generous tech allowance, an annual education budget, and the opportunity to participate in company-wide off-sites. We prioritize the well-being and growth of our team!

When answering this question, focus on specific projects where you used Elixir. Highlight the challenges you faced, the architectural decisions you made, and how your contributions positively impacted the project outcome. Show your passion for Elixir and how it aligns with your problem-solving skills.

For this question, discuss strategies such as utilizing Elixir's concurrency features, applying efficient data structures, and implementing caching mechanisms. Also, mention real-world examples where you successfully improved performance metrics or user experience through optimizations.

Share a specific instance where you tackled a complex issue, detailing your thought process and the steps you took to resolve it. Emphasize the skills you used and the results achieved, demonstrating your problem-solving ability and expertise in Elixir.

Mention tools like Telemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana that are commonly used in Elixir for monitoring performance metrics. Talk about how you implemented these tools in your projects to ensure operational excellence and the insights they provided for making data-driven improvements.

Explain your strategy for creating clear and concise documentation, emphasizing the importance of comprehensiveness and ease of understanding. Mention tools such as ExDoc for generating documentation and your experience using examples to illustrate API usage effectively.

Share a specific experience where you supported a customer or third-party library in interacting with your Elixir products. Discuss the challenges, your approach to understanding their needs, and how you provided effective solutions, showing your commitment to customer satisfaction.

Identify pitfalls such as memory leaks, improper use of processes, or issues with supervision trees. Share strategies you would employ to avoid these problems, showcasing your foresight and experience in building robust Elixir applications.

Talk about resources you utilize, such as Elixir and Erlang community forums, blogs, newsletters, and attending conferences or meetups. Highlight the importance of continuous learning and community involvement in staying ahead in the Elixir ecosystem.

Share your thoughts on Elixir’s concurrency model, fault tolerance, and functional programming paradigm. Explain how these features empower developers to build scalable and maintainable applications, and why you are passionate about working with Elixir.

Express your enthusiasm for Supabase's mission and values. Talk about how the company's focus on open-source, innovative products, and a collaborative culture aligns with your professional goals and passion for software development.