Engineering Manager - Realtime

The role

You will lead the Realtime engineering team at Supabase. The team builds Realtime, a globally distributed Elixir service for low-latency messaging, user state sync and database change listening.

What you will do

• Build a healthy, high-trust team culture in a remote, globally distributed environment.
• Run 1:1s, performance management, career development and onboarding for direct reports.
• Handle people admin for your team, such as leave and time off.
• Own the team's hiring plan and act as Hiring Manager.
• Conduct the first round of interviews for all roles on the team.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to source, interview and close candidates.
• Own the team's roadmap and project management in Linear.
• Manage workflow intake and Slack triage, and decide what gets routed, prioritized or pushed back.
• Keep stakeholders aligned with weekly updates, and surface risks and tradeoffs early.
• Train as an Incident Commander, lead incident coordination and run blameless post-incident reviews.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering background.
• 3+ years managing remote engineering teams.
• Experience managing a team that built and ran a low-latency, high-connection service, such as WebSockets, pub/sub, messaging, presence or streaming systems.
• Technical credibility in distributed systems, including clustering, rate limiting, backpressure and capacity planning.
• Experience leading a team through production incidents on a customer-facing service.
• Understanding of what developers need from a real-time API or SDK, and experience shipping one to customers outside your company.
• Experience managing remote, globally distributed teams working asynchronously across time zones.
• A genuine passion for people management.
• A track record of performance management, with specific examples of difficult conversations.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to build structure.
• Clear written and verbal communication, defaulting to async.

Nice to have

• Experience with Elixir, Erlang or BEAM.
• Experience with Postgres logical replication and Row Level Security.

Benefits

• Fully remote work, with a WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
• ESOP (equity ownership) for every team member.
• Tech allowance for your work setup.
• Health insurance: 100% coverage for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are.
• Annual company off-site in a new city, for a week.
• Flexible, asynchronous work.
• Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences or other learning.

About the company

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. It offers Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime and Vector Search, and has about 400 team members across 60+ countries.