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Engineering Manager - Spark
Engineering managerRemote — worldwide
Published on 2026-10-21
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About this role
Lead engineering efforts for Supabase Spark, an initiative building agentic database infrastructure at massive scale. The role combines people leadership, technical direction, roadmap ownership, hiring, and incident coordination in a remote-first environment.
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
Supabase Spark, focused on the next frontier of agentic databases.
Stack
PostgreSQLSQLiteLinearSlack
What you'll do
- Build a healthy, high-trust team and manage performance, career development, and onboarding.
- Own team hiring plans, interviews, and headcount planning.
- Set the team's roadmap, manage project delivery, and align stakeholders through written updates.
- Triage incoming work, prioritize support tickets, and maintain the team's SLO.
- Surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to leadership.
- Coordinate incident response and lead blameless post-incident reviews.
- Participate in design discussions and uphold engineering quality.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of engineering experience and 3+ years managing remote engineering teams.
- Experience managing teams at a cloud, SaaS, or developer tools company.
- Strong backend and database systems knowledge, including APIs, authentication, and PostgreSQL access control.
- Track record leading a team that shipped a developer-facing API or platform from early stage to production.
- Experience managing globally distributed teams working asynchronously across time zones.
- Strong people-management skills, including performance management and difficult conversations.
- Clear written communication, low-ego collaboration, and comfort with ambiguity.
- Comfort with aggressive scoping and evaluation-driven development.
Nice to have
- Developer tools or database experience, particularly with SQLite and PostgreSQL ecosystems.
Benefits
- Employee stock option plan (ESOP).
- Global coworking allowance or WeWork membership.
- Tech allowance for work equipment.
- Health insurance covered 100% for employees and 80% for dependents.
- Annual company off-site.
- Flexible asynchronous work.
- Annual professional development allowance.