Engineering Manager

Supabase

Engineering Manager leading remote engineering teams across Supabase. Shaping the role and building engineering quality in a globally distributed environment.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🌎 Anywhere in the WorldMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 (leave, time off, etc.) for your team.
Own the hiring plan for your team and act as Hiring Manager. First round of interviewer for all roles on the team.
Partner with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and close strong candidates.
Contribute to headcount planning, org design, and the evolution of engineering leadership at Supabase.
Own the team's roadmap and project management (Linear), driving accountability and clear milestones.
Manage workflow intake and Slack triage. These are the team’s primary inboxes for cross-team requests. You decide what gets routed where, prioritized, or pushed back on.
Own the team's weekly updates and keep stakeholders aligned without creating overhead.
Organize effort against support tickets and maintain the team's SLO.
Surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs early and clearly to leadership.
Train as an Incident Commander. Drive coordination, resolution, and post-incident follow-up.
Lead blameless post-incident reviews

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have 5+ years of engineering background, with enough depth to be credible with engineers building complex systems.
Have 3+ years managing remote engineering teams.
Have managed engineering teams at a cloud, SaaS, or developer tools company. Experience with developer tools or databases is a strong preference, but we'll consider any sufficiently technical background where you can demonstrate the ability to ramp on a new domain.
Have managed remote, globally distributed teams that work asynchronously across disparate time zones.
Are technical enough to be credible with strong engineers, but genuinely passionate about people management. This is the work you want to do, not a track you're settling for.
Build psychological safety and a feedback culture: you give feedback often and in the moment, ask for it back, and create space for the team to do the same.
Operate as a multiplier. Focused on helping individuals achieve more than they could alone, not on being the best technical voice in the room.
Coach rather than direct. Remove blockers, connect people to context and resources, and trust your engineers to own how the work gets done.
Have a real track record of performance management and can speak to specific examples of difficult conversations and how you navigated them.
Are comfortable with ambiguity and capable of building structure where there isn't much.
Communicate clearly and write well. You're default async, default written, set context proactively, and surface risks early.
Are collaborative, low-ego, and adaptable. You thrive working with high-autonomy, senior ICs who have strong technical opinions and don't need to be the smartest person in the room.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully Remote
ESOP
Tech Allowance
Health Benefits
Annual Off-Sites
Flexible Work
Professional Development

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Hard Skills & Tools

engineering managementperformance managementproject managementincident managementcloud computingSaaSdeveloper toolsdatabase managementremote team managementcomplex systems

Soft Skills

team culture buildingpsychological safetyfeedback culturecoachingcommunicationcollaborationadaptabilityproblem-solvingtrust buildingambiguity management