The opportunity
Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.
What you'll do
Own the agent platform architecture: The harness and orchestration layer and connectors into company systems, shared context and memory, and the path from prototype to production.
Catch regressions before they ship: Model, prompt, and tool changes can’t ship until they pass the evals. When a new model comes out, you know within hours whether to adopt it.
Make every agent observable: Every run and every decision is traced. For any agent at any time, you can answer what it did, why, what it cost, and how its quality is trending.
Own safety and trust: Design the controls that let agents act without a human in the loop: least-privilege credentials, hard policy limits, escalation thresholds, audit logs, sandboxing, and prompt-injection defenses.
Replace workflows, don’t assist them: Pick the workflows agents can fully own today and take them to production.
Turn wins into a platform: Package what works into reusable components, templates, and eval harnesses so other teams can ship their own production agents without starting from scratch.
What they're looking for
- Build and direct the team: Hire and grow senior ICs, review their designs and pull requests, and hold the quality bar.
- Measure what matters: Track workflows automated, eval pass rates, cost per run, and work absorbed against the hiring plan.
- Hands-on agent building: Have personally designed and built autonomous agent or LLM systems that ran in production and that others depended on. Prototypes, demos, and configuring a vendor tool don’t count. You don’t need to be a career software engineer, but you must have built these systems yourself.
- Architecture depth: Can explain how the pieces fit together (orchestration, tool and data access, context and memory, tracing, evals, guardrails, deployment), with opinions on current frameworks.
