Supabase

Head of Core – Engineering

Supabase

full-time

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Origin:  • 🌎 Anywhere in the World

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Postgres

About the role

  • Lead 5 engineering teams (Functions, Auth, Data APIs, Management API, Support Tooling) — ~15+ engineers and growing
  • Establish and maintain 3-month roadmaps for each team, aligned with Product priorities
  • Ensure consistent execution across all projects: clear milestones, weekly project updates, and accountability
  • Build and scale the teams through active hiring, onboarding, and career development
  • Enforce engineering standards: roadmap hygiene, issue/project tracking, test coverage, on-call, responsiveness
  • Coordinate closely with other Engineering Managers and Product Management to deliver cohesive developer experiences across Supabase Core
  • Provide technical direction where possible while empowering team experts

Requirements

  • Proven experience managing multiple engineering teams and delivering complex developer-facing products
  • Experience managing remote, globally-distributed teams
  • Strong organizational and execution skills: able to set roadmaps, drive accountability, and ensure delivery under uncertainty
  • Experience hiring, scaling, and mentoring engineering teams
  • Experience managing teams focused on developer tools, APIs, or backend infrastructure
  • Familiarity with: Auth systems; API development; Postgres; serverless runtimes
  • Excellent communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally with Product and other Engineering leadership
  • Collaborative, low-ego approach with flexibility to adapt to changing priorities
  • Ability to provide technical direction in at least one domain (Functions, Auth, APIs, or Postgres tooling)