Engineering Manager - Realtime

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 Realtime team at Supabase. Realtime lets developers send low-latency messages between clients, track and synchronize user state, and listen to database changes. Those three features are Broadcast, Presence and Postgres Changes. Broadcast also sends from the database and over HTTP, and clients can replay recent messages.

Realtime is a globally distributed Elixir cluster built on Phoenix. The team balances low latency, fair limits between projects, and the cost of running the service. Customers expect connections to stay up, so reliability matters as much as new features.

The Engineering Manager is a people, delivery and technical role. We don't expect you to write production code, but you you will lead a team of experienced engineers. 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 a low-latency, high-connection service. Examples are WebSockets, pub/sub, messaging, presence or streaming systems.

- Have strong technical credibility in distributed systems.