Engineering Manager - Pipelines

The role

You will lead the Pipelines team, which builds a managed change data capture product that copies selected tables from Supabase Postgres to other systems. You will focus on people, delivery and roadmap, and act as Incident Commander, while setting the bar for engineering quality, testing and operations.

What you will do

• Build a healthy, high-trust team culture in a remote-first, globally distributed team.
• Run 1:1s, performance management, career development and onboarding for direct reports.
• Handle people admin such as leave and time off for your team.
• Own the hiring plan for your team and act as Hiring Manager, including first-round interviews.
• Own the team's roadmap and project management in Linear.
• Manage workflow intake and Slack triage for cross-team requests, deciding what gets routed, prioritized or pushed back.
• Own the team's weekly updates and keep stakeholders aligned.
• Organize effort against support tickets and maintain the team's SLO.
• Train as an Incident Commander and lead blameless post-incident reviews.
• Surface risks, dependencies and tradeoffs early to leadership.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering background.
• 3+ years managing remote engineering teams.
• Experience managing a team that built and ran data pipelines, change data capture, replication or streaming systems.
• Strong technical credibility in data systems, including delivery guarantees, ordering, idempotency, schema changes and backfills.
• Knowledge of Postgres replication, including logical replication, the WAL and replication slots.
• Knowledge of analytical destinations such as BigQuery, Snowflake, ClickHouse or Iceberg.
• Experience leading a team through production incidents on a system holding customer data.
• Experience shipping a developer-facing data product to customers outside your company.
• Experience managing remote, globally distributed teams across time zones.
• Strong written and async communication skills.
• Track record of performance management, with examples of difficult conversations.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and building structure.

Nice to have

• Experience with Rust.

Benefits

• Fully remote.
• WeWork membership or co-working allowance anywhere in the world.
• ESOP (equity ownership) for every team member.
• Tech allowance for laptop, monitor, headphones or other equipment.
• 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are.
• Annual company off-site in a new city.
• Flexible work with asynchronous operations.
• Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences or other learning.

Before you apply

• Supabase hires globally.

About the company

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers, with Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime and Vector Search. It is born-remote, open-source-first, and has about 400 team members across 60+ countries.