Remote Python SDK Engineer - Async & Typing Expert

remote work; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Supabase is a Postgres development platform offering a complete backend solution. This role owns how developers talk to Supabase from Python, spanning the Python SDK across database, auth, storage, realtime and functions with both sync and async APIs.

The Python SDK owner will design and evolve a typing-friendly experience, review issues, triage contributions, and maintain CI/release automation while ensuring compatibility across Python versions, notebooks, and serverless environments.

Qualifications

• Strong modern Python typing skills, including generics, protocols, overloads and TypedDict.
• Experience authoring or maintaining a public library with a public API and external users.
• Proficiency in asyncio and supporting both sync and async usage patterns.
• Experience with Python packaging, pyproject.toml, wheels and dependency management.
• Ability to triage issues, review external PRs, manage changelogs, and perform release automation.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the Python SDK across multiple services with sync and async APIs.
• Design and maintain a typing experience that is checked and friendly for real-world codebases.
• Review issues, triage contributions, maintain CI and release automation, and manage scope with stakeholders.
• Keep compatibility across Python versions, frameworks, and execution environments including notebooks and serverless contexts.
• Write RFCs, migration guides, release notes and public documentation; treat breaking changes with deprecation paths.

Skills

Python typing

Asyncio

Public API

Packaging

Dependency management

Tools

CI/CD

Wheels

pyproject.toml

Dependency management

Job description

Supabase is a Postgres development platform offering a complete backend solution. This role owns how developers talk to Supabase from Python, spanning the Python SDK across database, auth, storage, realtime and functions with both sync and async APIs.

The Python SDK owner will design and evolve a typing-friendly experience, review issues, triage contributions, and maintain CI/release automation while ensuring compatibility across Python versions, notebooks, and serverless environments.