--- title: 'Engineering Manager at Supabase' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-supabase-global-cjrh8pbk18yt' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Engineering Manager at Supabase - **Company:** Supabase - **Location:** Global - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-06-22 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/99a80436-89ec-412b-b782-1dd462bd16dc/application **Skills:** Linear, Slack, Cloud, SaaS, Developer Tools, Databases > Lead engineering teams across Supabase, including developer-facing surfaces, core backend services, Platform, EngOps, and Databases. This role combines people leadership, delivery management, and technical oversight to build a high-trust, remote-first culture. ## Job description ## ABOUT SUPABASE Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth. ## ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for Engineering Managers to lead engineering teams across Supabase. Teams range from developer-facing surfaces, core backend services, Platform, EngOps, and Databases. This is a single pipeline for engineering management. As we get to know your background, we'll match you to the team where your experience and interests overlap most strongly. The Engineering Manager is a people, delivery, and technical role. Although we don’t expect managers to contribute to code directly, we do expect you to participate in design discussions and to be involved in setting the bar for engineering quality and best practices. This is a new role at Supabase. We've historically optimised for technical excellence on every axis, including leadership. As our engineering org grows, people leadership has become just as critical, and the Engineering Manager role exists to reflect that. You'll be shaping what this role looks like from day one. ## WHAT YOU'LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ## 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. First round of interviewer for all roles on the team. - 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. These are the team’s primary inboxes for cross-team requests. You decide what gets routed where, prioritized, or pushed back on. - 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 YOU MIGHT BE A GOOD FIT IF YOU - 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 engineering teams at a cloud, SaaS, or developer tools company. Experience with developer tools or databases is a strong preference, but we'll consider any sufficiently technical background where you can demonstrate the ability to ramp on a new domain. - Have managed remote, globally distributed teams that work asynchronously across disparate time zones. - Are technical enough to be credible with strong engineers, but genuinely passionate about people management. This is the work you want to do, not a track you're settling for. - Build psychological safety and a feedback culture: you give feedback often and in the moment, ask for it back, and create space for the team to do the same. - Operate as a multiplier. Focused on helping individuals achieve more than they could alone, not on being the best technical voice in the room. - Coach rather than direct. Remove blockers, connect people to context and resources, and trust your engineers to own how the work gets done. - Have a real track record of performance management and can speak to specific examples of difficult conversations and how you navigated them. - Are comfortable with ambiguity and capable of building structure where there isn't much. - Communicate clearly and write well. You're default async, default written, set context proactively, and surface risks early. - Are collaborative, low-ego, and adaptable. You thrive working with high-autonomy, senior ICs who have strong technical opinions and don't need to be the smartest person in the room. ## WHAT WE OFFER - Fully Remote We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world. - ESOP Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together. - Tech Allowance Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work. - Health Benefits Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family’s health are important to us. - Annual Off-Sites Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year. - Flexible Work We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when. - Professional Development Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth. ## ABOUT THE TEAM Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love. - ~400 team members - 60+ countries - 20+ languages spoken - Over $1B raised (including our $500M Series F) - 540,000+ community members We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities. ## About Supabase ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative built on Postgres, providing a complete backend platform with database, authentication, storage, edge functions, and realtime capabilities. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series E – $100M raised in November 2025) - **Headquarters**: United States (remote-first; no physical offices) - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Not publicly listed (co-founders are often referenced as Paul Copplestone and others, but names not confirmed in provided sources) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Developer tools / Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) / Database infrastructure - **Target customers**: B2B – primarily developers, startups, and mid-market companies building web and mobile applications; also serves enterprises through self-hosted options - **Mission**: Provide an open-source, portable alternative to proprietary backend services, enabling developers to “Build in a weekend. Scale to millions.” ## Products & Services - **Database**: Fully managed Postgres database with auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs, Table Editor, SQL Editor, and 40+ extensions. Every project is a dedicated Postgres database. - **Auth**: Authentication and user management with 20+ social login providers, email/password, phone/OTP, magic links, and Row Level Security via Postgres. - **Storage**: S3-compatible object storage with global CDN (285+ cities), image transformations, and three bucket types (files, analytics, vector). - **Edge Functions**: Globally distributed TypeScript/Deno serverless functions with Node.js compatibility and built-in observability. - **Realtime**: WebSocket-based realtime sync with database change listeners, presence, and broadcast capabilities. - **Vector**: AI toolkit using pgvector for storing, indexing, and querying vector embeddings alongside transactional data. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (implied from funding rounds; estimated in the range of $1B+ based on series size) - **Key Metrics**: - **Total Funding**: $496.25M (across 8 rounds; Series C in Sep 2024 of $80M, Series E in Nov 2025 of $100M) - **Annual Revenue**: Estimated $28M (according to LinkedIn; not officially confirmed by company) - **Headcount**: 350+ team members (as of mid-2025; grew ~173% YoY) - **Revenue Growth**: 1,300% increase reported in a 2-month period (from company blog) - **Community**: 540,000+ community members, 40,000+ memes posted (per careers page) - **Notable Investors**: Peak XV Partners, Craft Ventures, Accel, Coatue (led various rounds) - **Recent Milestones**: Acquired OrioleDB (April 2024); expanded to 16+ global regions; SOC2 Type 2 compliant ## Competitive Advantages - **Open-source core**: All major tools are open source and self-hostable, reducing vendor lock-in. - **Postgres foundation**: Industry-standard database with full portability – users can export data and run their own Postgres instance. - **Integrated platform**: Auth, database, storage, functions, and realtime work seamlessly out-of-the-box, eliminating the need to stitch together multiple services. - **Strong community and ecosystem**: 540K+ community members, extensive documentation, and a large library of extensions. ## Strategic Focus - **Scalability and performance**: Expanding global region presence and improving database density (grew deployed databases 3.5x in a short period). - **AI and vector capabilities**: Investment in pgvector and AI toolkit to meet growing demand for embedding and semantic search. - **Enterprise readiness**: SOC2 Type 2 compliance, partnership expansions (AWS Partnership lead hiring), and solutions architect roles signal push into larger accounts. - **Open-source collaboration**: Continued investment in community-driven development and transparency. ## Why Work Here - **Fully remote**: No offices – work from anywhere; asynchronous culture with tools like Notion, Slack, and Discord. - **Global, diverse team**: 350+ members in 60+ countries, speaking 20+ languages. - **Benefits**: 100% health coverage for employees, 80% for dependants; annual professional development allowance; co-working membership stipend; tech allowance. - **Engineering culture**: Emphasizes shipping fast, open-source collaboration, and deep technical ownership. Roles span: Postgres Engineers, Edge Functions, Auth, SDK, Infrastructure, and more. - **Growth trajectory**: Rapidly scaling (revenue up 1,300%, headcount up 173% YoY) – high impact environment for early-stage employees. - **Open source ethos**: Work directly with the community; contributor to Postgres ecosystem. ## Sources 1. [Supabase Homepage](https://supabase.com/) 2. [Supabase Careers](https://supabase.com/careers) 3. [Supabase Job Board](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase) 4. [Who We Hire Blog](https://supabase.com/blog/who-we-hire) 5. 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