The role
Supabase needs an Engineering Manager to lead the team behind Spark, its initiative for agentic databases. You'll own people, hiring, roadmap and incident response for a globally distributed, async team.
What you'll do
- Build a high-trust, remote-first team and run 1:1s and performance management
- Own the hiring plan and act as hiring manager for your team
- Own the roadmap, project management in Linear and weekly stakeholder updates
- Triage cross-team requests and maintain the team's SLO
- Train as an Incident Commander and lead blameless post-incident reviews
What they're looking for
Must-haves
- 5+ years of engineering background, credible with engineers on complex systems
- 3+ years managing remote engineering teams
- Managed teams at a cloud, SaaS or developer tools company
- Backend and database depth: APIs, auth, Postgres roles, grants and RLS
- Track record of performance management and clear, written async communication
Nice to have
- Developer tools or database experience, especially SQLite and Postgres
- Led a developer-facing API or platform product from early stage to production
- Comfort with aggressive scoping and eval-driven development
The company
Supabase
Remote-first Postgres platform, $1B+ raised
Supabase is the open-source Postgres development platform, offering database, auth, storage, edge functions, realtime and vector search. It's a born-remote team of about 400 people in 60+ countries.
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