CLI Engineer

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 ROLE

We are looking for a CLI Engineer to join our CLI Team and help build a world-class local development experience.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role focused on the supabase CLI, local development tooling, and the developer experience that makes Supabase feel like a first-class part of any dev environment. At this level, you'll also be a technical anchor for the team — setting the bar on architecture, owning the hardest problems, and raising the quality of the engineers around you.

• You will work closely with customers, product teams, and the open source community to deliver tooling that is consistent, secure, and performant across Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• This role is ideal for someone who thrives in async, fast-paced environments and is energized by building developer tools that scale to millions.
• WHAT YOU'LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR - Designing and developing CLI tooling that is consistent, secure, and performant across Windows, Linux, and macOS - Driving architecture decisions for the CLI and local development stack — writing RFCs, building consensus, and move proposals to outcomes - Owning the hardest cross-platform problems: edge cases, release engineering, backwards compatibility, performance at scale - Defining and maintaining CLI design standards — command structure, output formatting, error messaging, agentic usability — that the team builds against - Designing and evaluating CLI behavior for agentic workflows, ensuring the CLI is as usable for AI agents as it is for developers, and building the evals that measure that - Collaborating with product and platform teams to define end-to-end behavior: from API design through to how the CLI and local development stack surface those capabilities - Implementing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests so reliability and maintainability stay high as the surface area grows - Raising the technical quality of the team through structured code review, design feedback, and pairing — you take satisfaction in making the engineers around you better, not just shipping your own work - Creating documentation and help content for CLI users and contributing developers - Participating in releases, versioning, and backwards compatibility for the components you own - Monitoring usage and feedback; working with customers and the open source community to improve CLI experiences - Engaging with the open-source community — contributors, issues, feedback
• YOU MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT IF YOU - Have 5-8 years building developer-facing tooling, most of it on a CLI - Have strong TypeScript experience — this is a TypeScript codebase and you should be genuinely comfortable at depth - Have hands-on experience building, maintaining, or owning CLIs — including cross-platform concerns: filesystem access, subprocess management, terminal UX, and platform-specific behavior - Have a track record making and defending architectural decisions in a collaborative, async environment — RFCs, design docs, building consensus - Have experience building CLIs with great developer UX: intuitive command structure, clear output, actionable error messaging - Are familiar with agentic workflows and designing for agent use cases - Are familiar with package distribution and installation (npm, Homebrew, APT, Snap, Scoop, Chocolatey) - Have solid Git workflow and CI/CD experience for automated testing and deployment - Are highly autonomous — you don't need a lot of direction to go deep and ship
• 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.
• - ~400 team members - 60+ countries - 20+ languages spoken - Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F) - 540,000+ 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.