Engineering Manager - Pipelines

ABOUT SUPABASE

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.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Pipelines team at Supabase. Supabase Pipelines is a managed change data capture product. It copies the tables you select from Supabase Postgres to other systems, then streams later changes. The product is in public alpha, with BigQuery, ClickHouse, DuckLake and Snowflake destinations.

Pipelines uses Postgres logical replication and Supabase ETL, our open source replication engine written in Rust. The team works close to the database. That means replication slots, WAL retention, initial table syncs, and the load they place on a customer's source database. The team also builds and runs the destination connectors. Correctness, ordering and recovery matter there as much as speed.

The Engineering Manager is a people, delivery and technical role. We don't expect you to write production code. We do expect you to join design discussions and help set the bar for engineering quality, testing and operations.

WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

Team & People

- 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.

Hiring

- 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.

Delivery & Roadmap

- 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.

Incident Commander

- Train as an Incident Commander. Drive coordination, resolution, and post-incident follow-up.

- Lead blameless post-incident reviews

YOU MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT IF YOU

- 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 a team that built and ran data pipelines, change data capture, replication or streaming systems.

- Have strong technical credibility in data systems.