Manager, Development Engineering

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. 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. Broadcast also sends from the database and over and clients can replay recent messages.
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 do expect you to join design discussions and help set the bar for engineering quality, testing and operations.
Run 1:1s, performance management, career development, and onboarding for your direct reports.
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.
These are the team’s primary inboxes for cross-team requests. Surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs early and clearly to leadership.
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 strong technical credibility in distributed systems. We look for clustering, rate limiting, backpressure and capacity planning.
Have led a team through production incidents on a customer-facing service. Understand what developers need from a real-time API or SDK, and have shipped one to customers outside your company.
Are technical enough to be credible with strong engineers, but genuinely passionate about people management. You help individuals achieve more than they could alone, and you don’t need to be the best technical voice in the room.
Have a real track record of performance management and can speak to specific examples of difficult conversations.
You default to async and written, set context early, and surface risks early.
You thrive with high-autonomy senior engineers who don’t need you to be the smartest person in the room.

ESOP Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.
Tech Allowance Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
Health Benefits Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Annual Off-Sites Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. Flexible Work We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. Professional Development Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.
We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.

• ~20+ languages spoken
• 540,000+ community members

We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities.