23 hours ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and operate production backend services for Supabase’s AI products, including deployment, scaling, configuration, and releases for the MCP server.
- Own service architecture and evolve or split services to improve safety, reliability, and maintainability.
- Define and meet reliability targets with SLOs, error budgets, metrics, alerts, and runbooks.
- Participate in the on-call rotation, respond to incidents, coordinate across teams, and document follow-ups.
- Support the team queue and convert recurring issues into durable fixes.
- Own authentication and authorization for AI and agent clients, including OAuth applications, scoped tokens, permissions, and backward-compatible permission changes.
- Own observability through metrics, traces, logs, dashboards, and alerts.
- Manage agent-traffic capacity and abuse controls, including rate limits, cost controls, safety controls, and dependency degradation behavior.
- Collaborate with Platform and SRE teams on shared code, releases, infrastructure, alerting, and incident practices.
- Contribute to AI Tooling code where it affects reliability and security.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating backend services in production, including on-call responsibility.
- Strong TypeScript or Go skills and comfort working with the other language.
- Experience designing and operating APIs with real consumers, including versioning, error handling, rate limiting, and backward-compatible changes.
- Strong production knowledge of OAuth, OIDC, JWT, and API authorization.
- Good understanding of PostgreSQL and relational databases.
- Comfort with CI/CD, Docker, containerized deployments, and infrastructure as code.
- Ability to debug requests across services using metrics, traces, and logs.
- Strong written communication and ability to work with distributed stakeholders in an asynchronous environment.
- Deep expertise in at least one of APIs and authorization, production operations, or gateways and distributed systems.
- Experience with agent tooling such as MCP, AI-agent or LLM-client traffic, service extraction, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Logflare, SLOs, or open-source contributions is preferred.
Benefits
- Fully remote work with global hiring and no Supabase offices.
- WeWork membership or coworking allowance.
- ESOP equity ownership for every team member.
- Technology allowance for work equipment.
- Health insurance coverage of 100% for employees and 80% for dependents.
- Annual company off-site in a new city.
- Flexible asynchronous work arrangements.
- Annual professional development and education allowance.
Tech Stack
About Supabase
Supabase builds an open-source Postgres-based backend platform for developers, bundling database, authentication, storage, realtime APIs, edge functions, and vector search. It monetizes through a managed cloud service and enterprise offerings while remaining deployable self-hosted. Founded in 2020 and privately held, the company operates globally with a fully remote team. Developers use Supabase as a Firebase alternative to launch quickly and scale production applications on PostgreSQL.