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SDK Engineer - Python

Supabase· Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Python-focused SDK engineer responsible for building and evolving Supabase's Python SDK across database, auth, storage, realtime, and functions, with both sync and async APIs, while working in the open and aligning with the broader SDK team.

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve our Python SDK across database, auth, storage, realtime and functions, with both sync and async APIs that feel natural in Python.
  • Start new things. Alongside the maintenance work, find what's missing, make the case for it, and build it. Nobody will hand you the list.
  • Work in the open. Triage inbound issues, review and shepherd outside contributions, keep CI and release automation healthy, and hold a clear, kind line on scope.
  • Own the typing experience. Make the SDK fully typed and checker-friendly, so autocomplete and static analysis stay correct in real codebases.
  • Keep us honest across environments. Multiple Python versions, sync and async frameworks, workers, serverless and notebooks — with dependency ranges that don't fight our users' projects. Test it, don't assume it.
  • Work on realtime. Long-lived websocket connections, reconnection, and subscription and presence semantics.
  • Track the platform. When auth, realtime, storage, postgrest or edge functions ship a change, make sure the SDK reflects it, and that we say so in the changelog.
  • Design in public. Write the RFCs, migration guides, release notes and docs. Treat a breaking change as a deprecation path plus a migration story, not a version bump.
  • Make our SDK legible to AI coding agents

Qualifications

  • Know modern Python typing deeply. You use generics, protocols, overloads and TypedDict as design tools, run strict type checking, and fix type errors without reaching for Any.
  • Have authored or maintained a published library with a public API and users outside your own company.
  • Know the maintainer side of open source. Issue triage at volume, reviewing outside PRs, release automation, changelogs and semver, security reports, and saying no to a feature request without losing the person who asked.
  • Are fluent in asyncio and have opinions on how a library should serve both sync and async callers.
  • Know Python packaging for libraries: pyproject.toml, wheels, modern tooling, version support policy, and why libraries shouldn't pin their dependencies tightly.
  • Test as a habit: unit, type-level and end-to-end against a real stack. Every fix comes with a regression test.
  • Write well. Design docs, changelogs and issue replies are a large part of the output here, much of it public, and we're async by default.
  • Have real autonomy: you find the important work, scope it, ship it, and say what you didn't do.
  • Communicate clearly across both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Have experience in async or globally distributed teams
  • Are energized by solving real-world problems for developers
  • Are comfortable navigating ambiguity and moving quickly

Benefits

  • Fully Remote — Global hires with optional WeWork/co-working allowance
  • ESOP (equity ownership)
  • Tech Allowance for setup
  • Health Benefits — 100% covered for employees, 80% for dependents
  • Annual Off-Sites — company-wide in-person gathering
  • Flexible Work — asynchronous, self-managed timelines
  • Professional Development — annual learning allowance
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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