# Engineering Manager - Realtime

**Company**: Supabase
**Location**: Remote, Global
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## About the Role

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Realtime team at Supabase. The Realtime team enables developers to send low-latency messages between clients, track and synchronize user state, and listen to database changes.

## Responsibilities

### Team & People

- Build a healthy, high-trust team culture in a remote-first, globally distributed environment.

- Run 1:1s, performance management, career development, and onboarding for your direct reports.

- Handle people admin (leave, time off, etc.) for your team.

### Hiring

- Own the hiring plan for your team and act as Hiring Manager.

- Partner with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and close strong candidates.

- Contribute to headcount planning, org design, and the evolution of engineering leadership at Supabase.

### Delivery & Roadmap

- Own the team's roadmap and project management (Linear), driving accountability and clear milestones.

- Manage workflow intake and Slack triage.

- Own the team's weekly updates and keep stakeholders aligned without creating overhead.

- Organize effort against support tickets and maintain the team's SLO.

- Surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs early and clearly to leadership.

### Incident Commander

- Train as an Incident Commander.

- Drive coordination, resolution, and post-incident follow-up.

- Lead blameless post-incident reviews.

## Requirements

- Have 5+ years of engineering background, with enough depth to be credible with engineers building complex systems.

- Have 3+ years managing remote engineering teams.

- Have managed a team that built and ran a low-latency, high-connection service.

- Have strong technical credibility in distributed systems.

- Have led a team through production incidents on a customer-facing service.

- Understand what developers need from a real-time API or SDK, and have shipped one to customers outside your company.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with Elixir, Erlang or BEAM.

- Experience with Postgres logical replication and Row Level Security.

- Managed remote, globally distributed teams that work asynchronously across disparate time zones.

## What We Offer

- Fully Remote: We hire globally.

- ESOP: Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company.

- Tech Allowance: Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment.

- Health Benefits: Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents.

- Annual Off-Sites: Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun.

- Flexible Work: We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time.

- Professional Development: Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning.

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## Skills

### Required
- Elixir
- Erlang
- BEAM
- Postgres
- Distributed Systems
- Real-time API
- SDK

### Nice to have
- Postgres logical replication
- Row Level Security

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