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 Engineering Managers to lead engineering teams across Supabase. Teams range from developer-facing surfaces, core backend services, Platform, EngOps, and Databases. The Engineering Manager is a people, delivery, and technical role. Although we don’t expect managers to contribute to code directly, we do expect you to participate in design discussions and to be involved in setting the bar for engineering quality and best practices.
What You'll Be Responsible For
Team & People
- 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 for your team.
Hiring
- Own the hiring plan for your team and act as Hiring Manager.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and close strong candidates.
- Contribute to headcount planning, org design, and the evolution of engineering leadership.
Delivery & Roadmap
- Own the team's roadmap and project management, driving accountability and clear milestones.
- Manage workflow intake and triage, deciding what gets routed, prioritized, or pushed back on.
- Organize effort against support tickets and maintain the team's SLO.
- Surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs early and clearly to leadership.
Incident Commander
- Train as an Incident Commander. Drive coordination, resolution, and post-incident follow-up.
- Lead blameless post-incident reviews.
You Might Be a Good Fit If You
- Have 5+ years of engineering background, with enough depth to be credible with engineers building complex systems.
- Have 3+ years managing remote engineering teams, preferably in a cloud, SaaS, or developer tools environment.
- Are technical enough to be credible with strong engineers, but genuinely passionate about people management.
- Build psychological safety and a feedback culture, operating as a multiplier.
- Coach rather than direct, focusing on removing blockers and connecting people to resources.
- Have a real track record of performance management and can speak to specific examples of difficult conversations.
- Communicate clearly, write well, and are comfortable with ambiguity.
What We Offer
- Fully Remote: We hire globally and provide a co-working allowance.
- ESOP: Every team member receives equity ownership in the company.
- Tech Allowance: Budget to set up your ideal work environment.
- Health Benefits: 100% coverage for employees and 80% for dependents.
- Annual Off-Sites: A week of gathering in a new city for connection and collaboration.
- Professional Development: Annual education allowance for courses, books, and conferences.