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Engineering Manager

Supabase
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Worldwide
Experience
Senior · 5+ years

Job description

Engineering Manager at Supabase leading engineering teams across areas such as developer-facing surfaces, core backend services, Platform, EngOps, and Databases. The role is a people, delivery, and technical leadership position, with candidates matched to a team based on background and interests.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
Remote · Worldwide

What you'll do

  • Build a healthy, high-trust team culture in a remote-first, globally distributed environment
  • Run 1:1s, performance management, career development, and onboarding for your direct reports
  • Handle people admin (leave, time off, etc.) for your team
  • Own the hiring plan for your team and act as Hiring Manager; first round of interviewer for all roles on the team
  • Partner with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and close strong candidates
  • Contribute to headcount planning, org design, and the evolution of engineering leadership at Supabase
  • Own the team's roadmap and project management (Linear), driving accountability and clear milestones
  • Manage workflow intake and Slack triage, deciding what gets routed where, prioritized, or pushed back on
  • Own the team's weekly updates and keep stakeholders aligned without creating overhead
  • Organize effort against support tickets and maintain the team's SLO
  • Surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs early and clearly to leadership
  • Train as an Incident Commander; drive coordination, resolution, and post-incident follow-up
  • Lead blameless post-incident reviews
  • Participate in design discussions and be involved in setting the bar for engineering quality and best practices

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of engineering background, with enough depth to be credible with engineers building complex systems
  • 3+ years managing remote engineering teams
  • Have managed engineering teams at a cloud, SaaS, or developer tools company
  • Have managed remote, globally distributed teams that work asynchronously across disparate time zones
  • Technical enough to be credible with strong engineers, but genuinely passionate about people management
  • Build psychological safety and a feedback culture: give feedback often and in the moment, ask for it back, and create space for the team to do the same
  • Operate as a multiplier, focused on helping individuals achieve more than they could alone
  • Coach rather than direct; remove blockers, connect people to context and resources, and trust engineers to own how the work gets done
  • Have a real track record of performance management and can speak to specific examples of difficult conversations
  • Are comfortable with ambiguity and capable of building structure where there isn't much
  • Communicate clearly and write well; default async, default written, set context proactively, and surface risks early
  • Are collaborative, low-ego, and adaptable; thrive working with high-autonomy, senior ICs with strong technical opinions

Nice to have

  • Experience with developer tools or databases is a strong preference

Benefits

  • Fully Remote — hire globally; WeWork membership or co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world
  • ESOP — every team member receives equity ownership in the company
  • Tech Allowance — budget to set up your ideal work environment
  • Health Benefits — Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are
  • Annual Off-Sites — once a year the entire company gathers in a new city for a week
  • Flexible Work — operate asynchronously and manage your own time
  • Professional Development — annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports growth

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About Supabase

The Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers

Supabase provides a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.

Key facts

  • ~400 team members
  • Postgres development platform / backend services
  • 60+ countries
  • 20+ languages spoken
  • Over $1B raised (including a $500M Series F)
  • 540,000+ community members
  • Born-remote and open-source-first
  • No Supabase offices

What they value

  • Open-source ecosystem support
  • Build in public
  • Move fast
  • Use what we ship