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’re looking for a Product and Privacy Counsel to join our Legal team and partner closely with Product, Engineering, Security, Go To Market, and Leadership.
This person will help Supabase ship products faster while managing legal, privacy, regulatory, compliance and open source risk thoughtfully. You’ll work on product counseling, open source licensing, privacy and compliance reviews, product launch guidance, customer facing terms, and internal legal frameworks that help the company scale.
This is a strong fit for someone who enjoys working with technical teams, is comfortable in ambiguity, and can turn complex legal issues into practical business guidance.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
Act as primary counsel for product and engineering teams from concept through launch
Advise on legal issues related to product development, data usage, privacy, security, AI, integrations, and APIs
Partner with Engineering and Product on privacy, AI and compliance questions
Build scalable product launch review processes, legal checklists, internal guidance, and playbooks
Own and drive, global privacy, data protection, and AI governance strategy, including regulatory compliance across relevant jurisdictions
Advise on global privacy, regulatory, and compliance considerations related to Supabase products
Support customer and GTM teams on privacy related contract issues, product terms, security and privacy questions, and enterprise risk reviews
Help develop and maintain legal frameworks for AI and data usage, product claims, third party integrations, and partner and customer facing commitments
Partner cross functionally with Security, Finance, Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing and People as Supabase scales
Serve as a key legal voice on cross-functional leadership decisions, including on matters of regulatory risk, privacy posture, and product strategy
What You Have
8 to 12+ years of legal experience, including meaningful in-house privacy counsel experience preferably at global SaaS organizations handling sensitive customer data
Strong experience advising technical product, SaaS, cloud, developer tools, data, AI, security, or infrastructure teams
Working knowledge of privacy, data protection, and product compliance
Ability to translate legal risk into practical, business minded recommendations
Strong written communication and async collaboration skills
Experience building scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, or product review frameworks
Licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction
Track record of operating with meaningful autonomy and contributing to legal function leadership
Nice to Haves
Experience at a globally operating open source, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, database, AI, data, or security company
Privacy certification such as CIPP/E or CIPP/US
Experience with AI and data governance, model and data usage rights, or emerging product compliance issues
Experience supporting enterprise SaaS customers or security and privacy reviews
What You Are
Business minded and pragmatic
Product oriented, not just risk oriented
Clear, concise, and comfortable communicating with technical teams
Self directed and comfortable working async
Good at simplifying complexity
Comfortable with ambiguity and fast moving product decisions
High judgment, low ego, and willing to build the practical systems that help legal scale
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.
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.
Hiring Process
We keep things simple, async-friendly, and respectful of your time:
Apply – Our team will review your application.
Intro Call – A short video chat to get to know each other.
Interviews – Up to four calls with:
Team Leads
Future teammates
Someone cross-functional from product, growth, or engineering (depending on the role)
Someone from our leadership/founding team
Decision – We may follow up with a final question or go straight to offer.
All communication is remote and we aim to move fast.