Engineering Manager – Spark

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👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Supabase

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

☁️ SaaS

🔌 API

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $80M Series B on 2022-05

SaaS • API • Artificial Intelligence

Supabase is an open source alternative to Firebase, providing a range of backend tools designed to help developers start and scale their applications effectively. It offers features such as a full Postgres database, authentication with Row Level Security, instant APIs, Edge Functions for custom code, real-time data synchronization, and storage for large files. Developers can integrate machine learning models, utilize RESTful APIs, and take advantage of platform-integrated best of breed products. Supabase is designed to be highly portable, extendable, and user-friendly, making it a powerful choice for startups and enterprises looking to innovate quickly and efficiently.

📋 Description

• Lead engineering efforts for Supabase Spark, an initiative building agentic databases supporting billions of databases • Participate in design discussions and set standards for engineering quality and best practices • Build a healthy, high-trust team culture in a remote-first, globally distributed environment • Run 1:1s, performance management, career development, and onboarding for direct reports • Manage team leave, time off, and other people administration • 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 development • Own the team roadmap and project management using Linear • Manage workflow intake and Slack triage; route, prioritize, or push back on cross-team requests • Own weekly team updates and keep stakeholders aligned • Organize support-ticket efforts and maintain the team’s SLO • Surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to leadership • Train as an Incident Commander and drive incident coordination, resolution, and follow-up • Lead blameless post-incident reviews

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering experience • 3+ years managing remote engineering teams • Experience managing engineering teams at a cloud, SaaS, or developer tools company • Experience with developer tools or databases; experience with both SQLite and Postgres ecosystems is a plus • Strong technical credibility in backend and database systems, including APIs, auth, and Postgres access control (roles, grants, RLS) • Experience leading a team shipping a developer-facing API or platform product from early stage to production • Experience managing remote, globally distributed teams working asynchronously across disparate time zones • Genuine passion for people management • Experience building psychological safety and a feedback culture • Track record of performance management, including difficult conversations • Comfort with ambiguity and building structure • Clear communication and strong writing skills • Collaborative, low-ego, and adaptable working style • Comfort with aggressive scoping and eval-driven development

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • WeWork membership or co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world • ESOP equity ownership for every team member • Tech allowance for laptop, monitor, headphones, or other work equipment • Health insurance: 100% covered for employees and 80% for dependents • Annual company off-sites • Flexible, asynchronous work • Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other learning • Global, remote-first work environment