Tech Lead - CLI & Local Experience

Job description

About the role

Supabase CLI is how developers build locally - and for many of them, it's the first thing they touch after signing up. You'll be the technical anchor for the team that owns that experience: local development, the supabase CLI, IaC workflows, and the tooling that makes Supabase feel like a first-class part of any dev environment.

This is a pure engineering role. No people management - you're here to set the technical bar, drive architecture, and make the team faster and better through your work and judgment.

What you'll do

• Set and drive the technical direction for Supabase CLI and local development tooling across Windows, Linux, and macOS

• Lead architecture decisions: write RFCs, build consensus, and move proposals to outcomes

• Be the go-to person for hard problems: cross-platform edge cases, release engineering, backwards compatibility, performance

• Work closely with the team lead and engineering leadership on roadmap tradeoffs providing the technical signal that informs prioritization

• Ship consistently: this isn't a staff role that reviews PRs; you're expected to be a significant individual contributor

• Actively develop the technical capabilities of the team through structured code review, pairing, design feedback, and setting a high bar others can grow toward

• Serve as a technical mentor and reference point for engineers across the team, helping them navigate hard problems and build stronger engineering judgment

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