Software Engineer - AI Tooling Infrastructure

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.