Engineering Manager – Realtime

Supabase

. Lead the Realtime engineering team at Supabase .

Posted 11/12/2026full-timeRemoteMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing remote engineering teams, with a focus on building a high-trust culture and effective performance management. Possesses technical credibility in distributed systems and experience in incident management and resolution.

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Remote Team ManagementDistributed Systems ExpertiseIncident ManagementPerformance ManagementClear Communication

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Hard Skills

Engineering BackgroundLow-Latency Service ManagementWebSocketsClusteringRate LimitingCapacity PlanningPostgres Logical ReplicationRow Level SecurityElixirErlang

Soft Skills

Team Culture BuildingClear CommunicationComfort With AmbiguityStrong WritingDifficult Conversations

Tools & Technologies

LinearSlack

Industry Keywords

Real-Time APISDKBlameless Post-Incident ReviewsAsynchronous WorkPerformance Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsElixirErlangPostgres

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the Realtime engineering team at Supabase
Build a healthy, high-trust team culture in a remote-first, globally distributed environment
Run 1:1s, performance management, career development, onboarding, and people administration for direct reports
Own the team hiring plan and act as Hiring Manager
Conduct first-round interviews and partner with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and close candidates
Contribute to headcount planning, organizational design, and engineering leadership evolution
Own the team roadmap and project management in Linear
Manage workflow intake and Slack triage for cross-team requests
Own weekly updates and maintain stakeholder alignment
Organize support-ticket effort and maintain the team’s SLO
Surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to leadership
Train as and serve as an Incident Commander
Drive incident coordination, resolution, post-incident follow-up, and blameless post-incident reviews
Participate in design discussions and help set standards for engineering quality, testing, and operations

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Strong 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, including follow-up work and blameless reviews
Experience understanding developer needs from a real-time API or SDK and shipping one to customers outside the company
Experience managing remote, globally distributed teams working asynchronously across disparate time zones
Technical credibility with strong engineers and genuine interest in people management
Track record of performance management and difficult conversations
Comfort with ambiguity and ability to build structure
Clear communication and strong writing; ability to work asynchronously and in writing
Experience with Elixir, Erlang, or BEAM is a plus
Experience with Postgres logical replication and Row Level Security is a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully remote work from anywhere in the world
WeWork membership or co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world
ESOP equity ownership
Tech allowance for laptop, monitor, headphones, or other work equipment
Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents
Annual company off-sites
Flexible, asynchronous work
Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other learning
Remote-first, globally distributed work environment