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Engineering Manager
About this role
Supabase is seeking Engineering Managers to lead engineering teams across areas such as developer-facing surfaces, core backend services, Platform, EngOps, and Databases. The role focuses on people, delivery, and technical leadership, with no requirement to contribute code directly but involvement in design discussions and setting engineering quality standards. The position is new and reports will be shaped by your background and interests. The company operates a fully remote, global, open-source–oriented environment. The employer provides benefits and aims to support a distributed, async work culture.
What you would do
- Run 1:1s, manage performance and career development for direct reports
- Handle people administration including leave and time off for the team
- Own the hiring plan for your team and act as Hiring Manager
- Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and close strong candidates
- Contribute to headcount planning and engineering leadership evolution
- Own the team's roadmap and project management (Linear)
- Manage workflow intake and Slack triage for cross-team requests
- Keep stakeholders aligned with weekly team updates
- Organise effort against support tickets and maintain team SLO
- Identify and communicate risks, dependencies and tradeoffs to leadership
What they are asking for
- 5+ years of engineering experience with credibility with engineers on complex systems
- 3+ years managing remote engineering teams
- Experience managing teams at cloud, SaaS, or developer tools companies; familiarity with developers tools or databases preferred
- Experience leading remote, globally distributed teams across time zones
- Strong people management mindset with technical credibility
- Ability to build psychological safety and a feedback culture
- Track record of performance management and handling difficult conversations
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to create structure
- Clear written and verbal communication; proactive with async work
- Collaborative, low-ego, adaptable leadership capable of guiding senior ICs
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