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Engineering Manager - Realtime
Engineering managerRemote — worldwide
Published on 2026-11-12
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About this role
Lead Supabase’s Realtime team, which builds low-latency messaging, presence, and database-change features for developers. This is a people, delivery, and technical leadership role focused on team development, roadmap execution, service reliability, and engineering quality.
About the company
Supabase builds an open-source backend platform with Postgres, auth, storage, and realtime APIs. It helps developers launch production apps without managing custom infrastructure.
The team
Realtime team, building Broadcast, Presence, and Postgres Changes.
Stack
ElixirPhoenixPostgresWebSockets
What you'll do
- Manage and develop a remote, globally distributed team, including 1:1s, performance management, and career growth.
- Own hiring plans and partner with Talent Acquisition on recruiting.
- Set the team roadmap, manage priorities and delivery, and keep stakeholders aligned.
- Coordinate support work and maintain the team's SLO.
- Train as an Incident Commander and lead incident coordination and blameless reviews.
- Contribute to technical design discussions and engineering quality, testing, and operations.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of engineering experience and 3+ years managing remote engineering teams.
- Experience managing a low-latency, high-connection service such as messaging, pub/sub, or streaming.
- Strong distributed-systems knowledge, including clustering, rate limiting, backpressure, and capacity planning.
- Experience leading production incident response and blameless follow-up.
- Experience shipping a real-time API or SDK to external customers.
- Strong people-management skills, including performance management and difficult conversations.
- Clear written communication and experience working asynchronously across time zones.
Nice to have
- Experience with Elixir, Erlang, or the BEAM.
- Experience with Postgres logical replication and Row Level Security.
Benefits
- Employee stock options.
- Global coworking or WeWork allowance.
- Tech and annual professional-development allowances.
- Health insurance coverage for employees and partial coverage for dependents.
- Annual company off-sites and flexible asynchronous work.