SDK Engineer, Python

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Supabase

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

☁️ SaaS

🔌 API

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $80M Series B on 2022-05

SaaS • API • Artificial Intelligence

Supabase is an open source alternative to Firebase, providing a range of backend tools designed to help developers start and scale their applications effectively. It offers features such as a full Postgres database, authentication with Row Level Security, instant APIs, Edge Functions for custom code, real-time data synchronization, and storage for large files. Developers can integrate machine learning models, utilize RESTful APIs, and take advantage of platform-integrated best of breed products. Supabase is designed to be highly portable, extendable, and user-friendly, making it a powerful choice for startups and enterprises looking to innovate quickly and efficiently.

📋 Description

• Build and evolve the Python SDK across database, auth, storage, realtime, and functions • Develop sync and async APIs that feel natural in Python • Identify missing capabilities, advocate for them, and build them independently • Triage inbound issues and review and shepherd external contributions • Maintain CI and release automation • Own the SDK typing experience and ensure checker-friendly behavior • Test across multiple Python versions, sync and async frameworks, workers, serverless environments, and notebooks • Implement and maintain realtime functionality, including long-lived WebSocket connections, reconnection, subscription, and presence semantics • Track platform changes across auth, realtime, storage, PostgREST, and Edge Functions and update the SDK and changelog • Write RFCs, migration guides, release notes, and documentation • Improve SDK usability for AI coding agents • Collaborate with SDK, Auth, Realtime, Storage, PostgREST, Functions, CLI, Docs, and open-source communities

🎯 Requirements

• Deep knowledge of modern Python typing, including generics, protocols, overloads, and TypedDict • Experience using strict type checking and avoiding unnecessary Any • Authored or maintained a published library with a public API and external users • Open-source maintainer experience, including issue triage, external pull-request reviews, release automation, changelogs, semantic versioning, and security reports • Fluency in asyncio and experience supporting sync and async callers • Knowledge of Python library packaging, including pyproject.toml, wheels, modern tooling, and version-support policies • Testing experience with unit, type-level, and end-to-end tests against a real stack • Strong writing skills for design documents, changelogs, issue replies, and public documentation • Ability to work autonomously and scope and deliver work independently • Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences • Experience working in async or globally distributed teams • Comfort navigating ambiguity and moving quickly • Bonus: experience with major-version migrations for public packages, JWT/OAuth, AI agent framework integrations, or schema-generated idiomatic clients

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 covered 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 professional development