Engineering Productivity Engineer

Job description

About this role

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth. We’re looking for an EngProd Engineer to join our Engineering Operations team and own the engineering experience from local setup to production deploy. You’ll build and integrate the tools our engineers rely on every day: local development, code search, testing, code review, CI, AI-assisted workflows, and the metrics that show where time is being lost.

Responsibilities

• Improve local development and the daily workflow
• Own local development environment stability; eliminate “works on my machine,” keep environments reproducible across teams, and make onboarding and setup self-service for every engineer
• Improve the daily editing experience, including IDE and editor tooling, extensions, and code search, indexing, and navigation that stays fast as the codebase grows
• Build paved roads: project scaffolding, templates, and golden-path workflows that make the right thing the easy thing
• Speed up build, test, and CI
• Improve our testing tooling and make sure it works well for engineers, including test orchestration, ephemeral end-to-end environments, and techniques like mutation and chaos testing that catch what ordinary tests miss
• Profile build and test performance, optimize CI pipelines, parallelize and shard tests, cache aggressively, and hunt down the bottlenecks that leave engineers waiting
• Integrate and optimize code review tooling and automated review
• Bring AI into how we build
• Evaluate, integrate, and promote AI coding agents and assistants where they deliver real leverage without sacrificing quality or maintainability

Qualifications and requirements

• Have 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on developer productivity, infrastructure, or platform engineering
• Are passionate about developer experience and productivity; you notice when engineers are fighting tools rather than solving problems, and you can’t help but fix it
• Are proficient in Go, TypeScript, Python, Rust, and shell and use them to build robust internal tools
• You have experience with:
• CI/CD systems and pipeline optimization (e.g. Github Actions, ArgoCD, Octopus, Harness)
• Local development environments and reproducibility (e.g. devcontainers, Nix, Docker)
• Containerization and image optimization
• AI-assisted development tools such as coding agents and IDE assistants, with a clear point of view on where they help and where they don’t
• Test infrastructure and test orchestration, ephemeral end-to-end environments, flaky-test management, and approaches like mutation or chaos testing
• Code review and developer workflow tooling, and the automation that streamlines it
• Monorepo tooling, build systems, and package managers (e.g. pnpm, Nx, Turborepo, Bazel), including build caching and remote execution