Software Engineer – AI Tooling Infrastructure

Supabase

. Build and operate production backend services behind Supabase’s AI products, including the MCP server .

Posted 10/31/2026full-timeRemoteMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and operating production backend services, with a strong focus on API design, authentication, and observability. Proficient in managing deployment, scaling, and reliability targets while collaborating effectively with diverse teams.

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Backend Service DevelopmentTypeScript or Go ProficiencyAPI Design and AuthorizationObservability Tools ExperienceProduction Operations Expertise

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Hard Skills

TypeScriptGoAPI DesignOAuthOIDCJWTPostgreSQLCI/CDDockerMetrics and Logs Debugging

Soft Skills

Clear Written CommunicationAbility to Work with Diverse StakeholdersComfort Navigating Ambiguity

Tools & Technologies

GrafanaOpenTelemetryLogflareSupabaseContainerized Deployments

Industry Keywords

Production OperationsService ReliabilityIncident ManagementRate LimitingDistributed Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsDockerGrafanaJavaScriptNode.jsPostgresTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and operate production backend services behind Supabase’s AI products, including the MCP server
Handle deployment, scaling, configuration, and release
Structure, split, or reshape services to improve safety and maintainability
Define, measure, and meet reliability targets; set SLOs, track error budgets, and prioritize fixes
Participate in the AI Tooling team on-call rotation and respond to incidents
Investigate and fix incidents, coordinate with other teams, and write follow-ups and runbooks
Work the team support queue and turn recurring issues into fixes
Own authentication and authorization for AI and agent clients, including OAuth apps, scoped tokens, permissions, and deprecation strategies
Own observability through metrics, traces, logs, dashboards, and alerts
Manage capacity and abuse for agent traffic, including rate limits, cost controls, safety controls, and degraded-dependency behavior
Improve service architecture as systems grow
Collaborate with Platform on shared code, ownership, and release processes
Collaborate with SRE on infrastructure, alerting, and incident practices
Contribute to AI Tooling team code where it affects reliability and security

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience building and running backend services in production, including carrying on-call
Strong TypeScript or Go skills, with comfort working in the other
Experience designing and operating APIs with real consumers, including versioning, error handling, rate limiting, and backward-compatible change
Strong knowledge of OAuth, OIDC, JWT, and API authorization
Good understanding of PostgreSQL and relational databases
Familiarity with CI/CD, Docker, containerized deployments, and infrastructure as code
Ability to debug across services using metrics, traces, and logs
Clear written communication and ability to work with diverse stakeholders in async, globally distributed teams
Comfort navigating ambiguity and moving quickly
Deep expertise in at least one of: APIs and authentication; production operations; gateways and distributed systems
Experience with agent tooling or AI agent and LLM client traffic is nice to have
Experience extracting a service from a larger codebase while keeping existing clients working is nice to have
Experience with Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Logflare, or similar observability tools and real SLO work is nice to have
Open-source contributions, especially to Node.js, Go, TypeScript, or API tooling, are nice to have

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully remote work
WeWork membership or co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world
ESOP (equity ownership) for every team member
Tech allowance for laptop, monitor, headphones, or other work equipment
Health insurance: Supabase covers 100% for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are
Annual company off-sites
Flexible, asynchronous work
Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other learning