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About the role
Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.
We’re looking for a Software Engineer, AI Tooling Infrastructure to join our AI Tooling team and help build and run the backend services behind Supabase’s AI products. You’ll work closely with the Platform, SRE, Auth, Billing and Edge Functions teams to ensure services are reliable, correctly authorized and observable.
This is a systems and infrastructure role rather than a product AI role. You will build and operate these systems in an async, fast-paced environment, owning what you ship in production for developer tools that scale to millions.
What you'll do
- Build and operate the production backend services behind Supabase’s AI products, including the MCP server: deployment, scaling, configuration and release.
- Define, measure and meet reliability targets for the services the team runs, setting SLOs with the SRE team and tracking error budgets.
- Participate in the AI Tooling team on-call rotation and act as a first responder for incidents, including writing follow-ups and runbooks.
- Own authentication and authorization for AI and agent clients, including OAuth apps, scoped tokens, and permissions.
- Own observability for team-run services, including metrics, traces, logs, dashboards, and alerts.
- Handle capacity and abuse for agent traffic, including rate limits, cost and safety controls, and behavior under load.
- Improve the architecture of services as they grow, including splitting or reshaping services for safety and ease of change.
- Work the AI Tooling team support queue alongside on-call to turn recurring issues into permanent fixes.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of experience building and running backend services in production and carrying on-call.
- Proficiency in writing strong TypeScript or Go and comfort working in both.
- Experience designing and operating APIs with versioning, error handling, rate limiting, and backwards-compatible change.
- Deep knowledge of OAuth, OIDC, JWT, and API authorization.
- Good understanding of PostgreSQL and relational databases.
- Comfortable with CI/CD, Docker, containerized deployments, and infrastructure as code.
- Ability to debug across services using metrics, traces, and logs.
- Clear written communication skills for async, globally distributed teams.
- Deep expertise in at least one: APIs and auth, Operations, or Gateways and distributed systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with agent tooling (MCP or similar) or serving traffic from AI agents and LLM clients.
- Experience moving a service out of a larger codebase while keeping existing clients working.
- Experience with Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Logflare or a similar observability stack and real SLO work.
- Open-source contributions to Node.js, Go, TypeScript, or API tooling.
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Supabase benefits
◉ Remote policy · in their words
“"Fully Remote. We hire globally. Work remotely from anywhere in the world. We work in teams, but we work asynchronously."”
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