Software Engineer - AI Tooling

The role

You will build and own AI tooling including agents, the MCP server, agent skills, and the dashboard assistant. You will work with various teams to ensure new products are usable by agents and implement an eval-first approach.

What you will do

• Build and improve AI tooling including the MCP server, agent skills, agents and the Assistant.
• Make new Supabase products usable by agents from day one.
• Build tooling for new AI technologies as they emerge.
• Drive an eval-first approach by building evals, instrumentation and feedback loops.
• Understand how customers and agents use shipped products to improve tooling and documentation.
• Design how documentation and product knowledge are exposed to agents.
• Build patterns and tools to help customers add AI to their own apps.
• Enable teams to improve agentic capabilities through clear contribution paths and templates.
• Centralise shared AI logic.
• Ship tools with strong tests, benchmarking and stress testing.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Write strong TypeScript and know the JavaScript ecosystem well.
• Deeply familiar with the AI ecosystem, current tools, and agent patterns.
• Have built developer tools, product interfaces or platform primitives used by other engineers.
• Have designed or used evaluation frameworks to measure AI quality, reliability and task success.
• Have strong judgement about where AI improves workflows.
• Write tests and validate reliability in real-world conditions.
• Know Postgres and relational database practice.
• Communicate clearly in writing.
• Thrive in async, globally distributed teams.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and moving quickly.

Nice to have

• Experience with vector databases and embeddings, ideally pgvector.
• Examples of customer-facing AI features or agents you've shipped.
• Examples of documentation or structured knowledge designed for developers or agents.
• Experience with Braintrust or a similar eval and tracing platform, or setting up CI quality gates.
• Open-source contributions or developer tooling you've maintained.
• Experience across several product surfaces or teams.

Benefits

• WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
• ESOP (equity ownership).
• Tech Allowance for work environment setup.
• 100% health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents.
• Annual Off-Sites.
• Flexible Work.
• Annual education allowance.

About the company

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. It provides a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search.