Control Plane Engineer
- Role
- Backend
- Experience
- Senior
- Employment
- Full-time
- Company size
- Mid-size
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No BS summary
Control Plane Engineer, 5+ yrs in backend API development, must be proficient in TypeScript and Node.js. Experience with OAuth, PostgreSQL, and API security is required. Fully remote, open to global candidates.
Required skills
Optional skills
About Supabase
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.
About the team:
Management API, written in TypeScript, Nest.js and for other JavaScript technologies, is a central part of every product in the Supabase stack. It allows all Supabase services and Supabase Studio to communicate with each other, programmatically manage your own Supabase projects and organisations, as well as integrate with 3rd party services like Vercel, Resend, or Lovable. We are seeking someone to help us maintain the existing API, expand OAuth applications capabilities, enhance reliability, and improve the overall public API experience.
You will:
- Design, implement, and maintain both internal and public-facing APIs used across various Supabase products, including Studio, CLI, management APIs, and OAuth applications.
- Integrate with third-party platforms and partners, either by developing custom integrations or providing clear API points for them to connect with Supabase.
- Collaborate closely with various teams across Supabase (DevOps, Frontend, etc.) to ensure smooth integration and implementation of API functionality for the rest of the platform.
- Build and enhance testing, debugging, and monitoring tools to ensure public APIs' stability, reliability, and performance.
- Work with the dev-workflows team to enhance and improve the Branching experience, making it easier and more valuable for Supabase users.
You have:
- 5+ years of experience in backend API development, with strong expertise in TypeScript and JavaScript (Node.js) and familiarity with modern tools and frameworks (e.g., Nest.js, Express, Vitest, Zod).
- Expertise in designing robust, scalable, and maintainable APIs, and experience with API versioning, pagination, and error handling best practices. Experience with OAuth, JWT, and API security best practices (rate limiting, CORS, etc.). is a plus.
- Good understanding of PostgreSQL and relational databases.
- Proven ability to build scalable, maintainable APIs and develop tools for testing, debugging, and monitoring API performance.
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and containerized deployments to streamline API development, testing, and release processes.
What We Offer
- Fully Remote We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.
- ESOP Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.
- Tech Allowance Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
- Health Benefits Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family’s health are important to us.
- Annual Off-Sites Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year.
- Flexible Work We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.
- Professional Development Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.
About the Team
Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.
- 280+ team members
- 55+ countries
- 20+ languages spoken
- $500M raised
- 500,000+ community members
We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities.
Hiring Process
We keep things simple, async-friendly, and respectful of your time:
- Apply – Our team will review your application.
- Intro Call – A short video chat to get to know each other.
- Interviews – Up to four calls with:
- Team Leads
- Future teammates
- Someone cross-functional from product, growth, or engineering (depending on the role)
- Someone from our leadership/founding team
- Decision – We may follow up with a final question or go straight to offer.
All communication is remote and we aim to move fast.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and maintain internal and public-facing APIs across Supabase products including Studio, CLI, management APIs, and OAuth applications
- Integrate with third-party platforms and partners through custom integrations or clear API points
- Collaborate with DevOps, Frontend, and other teams to ensure smooth API integration across the platform
- Build and enhance testing, debugging, and monitoring tools for public API stability, reliability, and performance
- Work with the dev-workflows team to improve the Branching experience for Supabase users
- Design, implement, and maintain internal and public-facing APIs across Supabase products (Studio, CLI, management APIs, OAuth applications).
- Integrate with third-party platforms and partners via custom integrations or clear API endpoints.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (DevOps, Frontend) to ensure smooth integration of API functionality.
- Build and enhance testing, debugging, and monitoring tools to ensure API stability, reliability, and performance.
- Work with dev-workflows team to improve Branching experience.
- Collaborate with DevOps, Frontend, and other teams to ensure smooth API integration and implementation
- Enhance and improve the Branching experience with the dev-workflows team
- Design, implement, and maintain internal and public-facing APIs across Supabase products
- Integrate with third-party platforms and partners
- Collaborate with DevOps, Frontend, and other teams to integrate API functionality
- Build and enhance testing, debugging, and monitoring tools for public APIs
- Improve the Branching experience with the dev-workflows team
What they require
- 5+ years of experience in backend API development
- Strong expertise in TypeScript and JavaScript with Node.js
- Familiarity with modern tools and frameworks such as Nest.js, Express, Vitest, and Zod
- Expertise in designing robust, scalable, and maintainable APIs
- Experience with API versioning, pagination, and error handling best practices
- Experience with API security best practices such as rate limiting and CORS is a plus
- Good understanding of PostgreSQL and relational databases
- Proven ability to build scalable, maintainable APIs and develop tools for testing, debugging, and monitoring API performance
- Understanding of containerized deployments to streamline API development, testing, and release processes
- Strong expertise in TypeScript and JavaScript (Node.js)
- Expertise in designing robust, scalable, and maintainable APIs, including API versioning, pagination, and error handling best practices
- Experience with OAuth, JWT, and API security best practices
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments
- Strong expertise in TypeScript and JavaScript using Node.js
- Expertise designing robust, scalable, and maintainable APIs
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and containerized deployments
- Strong expertise in TypeScript and JavaScript Node.js
- Experience with OAuth, JWT, and API security best practices is a plus
- Proven ability to build scalable, maintainable APIs and tools for testing, debugging, and monitoring API performance
Benefits
- Fully remote global work
- WeWork membership or co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world
- ESOP equity ownership
- Tech allowance for work environment setup
- 100% employee health insurance coverage and 80% dependent coverage
- Annual company off-sites
- Flexible asynchronous work
- Annual professional development education allowance
- Fully remote work
- ESOP (equity ownership)
- WeWork membership or co-working allowance
- Tech allowance for equipment
- Health insurance (company covers 100% for employees, 80% for dependents)
- Annual off-sites
- Annual professional development/education allowance
- WeWork membership or co-working allowance anywhere in the world
- Tech allowance
- Annual professional development allowance
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