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.
Supabase
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