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About the role
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.
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Realtime team at Supabase. Realtime is a globally distributed Elixir cluster built on Phoenix that lets developers send low-latency messages between clients, track user state, and listen to database changes.
The Engineering Manager is a people, delivery and technical role. While you won't write production code, you will lead experienced engineers, join design discussions, and help set the bar for engineering quality, testing and operations.
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 direct reports.
- Own the hiring plan for your team and act as the first round interviewer for all roles.
- Own the team's roadmap and project management (Linear), driving accountability and clear milestones.
- Manage workflow intake, Slack triage, and organize effort against support tickets to maintain SLOs.
- Surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs early and clearly to leadership.
- Train as an Incident Commander to drive coordination, resolution, and lead blameless post-incident reviews.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of engineering background with depth in complex systems.
- 3+ years managing remote engineering teams.
- Experience managing a team that built and ran a low-latency, high-connection service (WebSockets, pub/sub, etc.).
- Strong technical credibility in distributed systems (clustering, rate limiting, backpressure).
- Experience leading a team through production incidents on customer-facing services.
- Ability to manage remote, globally distributed teams asynchronously across disparate time zones.
- Proven track record of performance management and having difficult conversations.
- Excellent written and async-first communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with Elixir, Erlang or BEAM.
- Experience with Postgres logical replication and Row Level Security.
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“"Fully Remote. We hire globally. Work remotely from anywhere in the world. We work in teams, but we work asynchronously."”
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