Engineering Manager - Spark

The role

Engineering Managers will lead the engineering effort on Supabase Spark to build agentic databases. You will manage people, hiring, and delivery while participating in design discussions and setting engineering quality standards.

What you will do

• Build a healthy, high-trust team culture in a remote-first, globally distributed environment.
• Run 1:1s, performance management, career development, and onboarding.
• Handle people admin for the team.
• Own the hiring plan and act as Hiring Manager.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and close candidates.
• Contribute to headcount planning, org design, and engineering leadership evolution.
• Own the team's roadmap and project management using Linear.
• Manage workflow intake and Slack triage.
• Own the team's weekly updates and keep stakeholders aligned.
• Organize effort against support tickets and maintain the team's SLO.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering background.
• 3+ years managing remote engineering teams.
• Managed engineering teams at a cloud, SaaS, or developer tools company.
• Experience with developer tools or databases.
• Strong technical credibility in backend and database systems: APIs, auth, and Postgres access control.
• Led a team shipping a developer facing API or platform product from early stage to production.
• Managed remote, globally distributed teams that work asynchronously across disparate time zones.
• Track record of performance management.
• Communicate clearly and write well.
• Collaborative, low-ego, and adaptable.

Nice to have

• Experience with both SQLite and Postgres ecosystems.

Benefits

• WeWork membership or co-working allowance
• ESOP (equity ownership)
• Tech Allowance for work environment setup
• 100% health insurance for employees
• 80% health insurance for dependents
• Annual Off-Sites
• Flexible Work
• Annual education allowance

About the company

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. It provides a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search.