Engineering Productivity Engineer

Remotedxb; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Supabase is expanding its engineering platform team in Dubai, seeking a senior engineer to drive developer productivity and platform initiatives. You will optimize local development environments, improve IDE tooling and scaffolding, and advance CI/CD efficiency while evaluating AI coding assistants and tracking productivity metrics.

You will collaborate with globally distributed teams, contribute to monorepo tooling, and help design golden-path workflows to accelerate product delivery.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience focusing on developer productivity, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Proficiency in Go, TypeScript, Python, Rust, and shell.
• Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Experience with local development reproducibility (e.g., devcontainers, Nix, Docker).
• Experience with monorepo tooling and build systems (e.g., pnpm, Nx, Turborepo, Bazel).
• Experience with test infrastructure and orchestration.
• Ability to work effectively in async, globally distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Improve local development environments and daily workflows to ensure reproducibility and self-service onboarding.
• Enhance the daily editing experience through IDE tooling, extensions, and fast code search/indexing.
• Build paved roads including project scaffolding, templates, and golden-path workflows.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines, build performance, and test orchestration to reduce cycle times.
• Integrate and evaluate AI coding agents and assistants to improve developer leverage.
• Track engineering productivity metrics like DORA and code-quality signals to drive improvements.

Skills

Go

TypeScript

Python

Rust

Shell

CI/CD

Async collaboration

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

devcontainers

Nix

Docker

pnpm

Nx

Turborepo

Bazel

Job description

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

• Improve local development environments and daily workflows to ensure reproducibility and self-service onboarding
• Enhance the daily editing experience through IDE tooling, extensions, and fast code search/indexing
• Build paved roads including project scaffolding, templates, and golden-path workflows
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines, build performance, and test orchestration to reduce cycle times
• Integrate and evaluate AI coding agents and assistants to improve developer leverage
• Track engineering productivity metrics like DORA and code-quality signals to drive improvements

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience focused on developer productivity, infrastructure, or platform engineering
• Proficiency in Go, TypeScript, Python, Rust, and shell
• Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
• Experience with local development reproducibility (e.g., devcontainers, Nix, Docker)
• Experience with monorepo tooling and build systems (e.g., pnpm, Nx, Turborepo, Bazel)
• Experience with test infrastructure and orchestration
• Ability to work effectively in async, globally distributed teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with containerization and image optimization
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and coding agents
• Knowledge of developer productivity metrics and feedback loops