Engineering Manager - Realtime
Supabase · Engineering · Lead · 1d ago
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Anyone, anywhere in the world can apply.
“We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere.”
Globally distributed team of around 400 people across 60+ countries working asynchronously.
- Async-first
- Supabase operates asynchronously and relies heavily on written context and documentation across global time zones.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- Offers a global WeWork or co-working allowance, a tech budget for home office setup, and an annual education stipend.
- Annual retreat
- The entire company gathers once a year in a new city for a week-long off-site.
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About the role
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Realtime team at Supabase. Realtime is a globally distributed Elixir cluster built on Phoenix that lets developers send low-latency messages between clients, track user state, and listen to database changes. This is a people, delivery, and technical leadership role where you will support senior engineers, drive team roadmaps, oversee incident management, and maintain engineering excellence without needing to write production code.
What you'll do
- Build a healthy, high-trust team culture and handle 1:1s, performance management, career development, and onboarding.
- Own hiring plans and act as Hiring Manager for the team in partnership with Talent Acquisition.
- Manage the team roadmap and project delivery in Linear, balancing incoming requests, support tickets, and team SLOs.
- Serve as an Incident Commander, coordinating incident resolution and leading blameless post-mortems.
- Surface risks, dependencies, and architecture trade-offs early to engineering leadership.
What you bring
- 5+ years of engineering background with strong credibility in distributed systems (clustering, backpressure, rate limiting).
- 3+ years managing remote engineering teams operating across disparate time zones.
- Proven experience managing teams that build and operate low-latency, high-connection services (e.g., WebSockets, pub/sub, streaming).
- Track record leading production incident response and running blameless post-incident reviews.
- Exceptional written and asynchronous communication skills.
About Supabase
Supabase is an open-source Postgres development platform providing a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. The company is born-remote with around 400 team members across 60+ countries.
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