The role
Supabase needs an Engineering Manager to lead its Realtime team, which runs Broadcast, Presence and Postgres Changes. You'll own people, delivery and incident response rather than writing production code.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow a team of experienced engineers through 1:1s and career development
- Own the hiring plan and act as Hiring Manager for the team
- Run the roadmap, workflow intake and weekly stakeholder updates
- Train as an Incident Commander and lead blameless post-incident reviews
- Join design discussions and help set the bar for quality, testing and operations
What they're looking for
Must-haves
- 5+ years of engineering background
- 3+ years managing remote engineering teams
- Managed a team running a low-latency, high-connection service
- Distributed systems depth: clustering, rate limiting, backpressure, capacity planning
- Track record of performance management and leading teams through incidents
Nice to have
- Experience with Elixir, Erlang or BEAM
- Postgres logical replication and Row Level Security
- Shipped a real-time API or SDK to outside customers
The company
Supabase
Born-remote Postgres platform, 60+ countries
Supabase is an open-source-first Postgres development platform offering Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime and Vector Search. It has about 400 people across 60+ countries.
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