Engineering Manager - Pipelines

About the role

Supabase is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead its Pipelines team, which is a managed change data capture product that copies selected tables from Supabase Postgres to other systems and streams later changes. The product is in public alpha with BigQuery, ClickHouse, DuckLake and Snowflake destinations, and uses Postgres logical replication and Supabase ETL, an open source replication engine written in Rust. The manager is a people, delivery and technical role, joining design discussions and helping set the bar for engineering quality, testing and operations.

Key responsibilities

• Build a healthy, high-trust team culture in a remote-first, globally distributed environment, and run 1:1s, performance management, career development and onboarding for direct reports.
• Handle people admin (leave, time off) and own the hiring plan, acting as Hiring Manager and first round interviewer, while partnering with Talent Acquisition.
• Own the team's roadmap and project management (Linear), manage workflow intake and Slack triage, organize weekly updates and stakeholder alignment, and surface risks and trade-offs early.
• Organize effort against support tickets, maintain the team's SLO, and train as an Incident Commander, leading blameless post-incident reviews.

Required profile

• 5+ years of engineering background, with enough depth to be credible with engineers building complex systems.
• 3+ years managing remote engineering teams, including teams that built and ran data pipelines, change data capture, replication or streaming systems.
• Experience leading a team through production incidents on a system holding customer data, and shipping a developer-facing data product to external customers.
• Strong technical credibility in data systems (delivery guarantees, ordering, idempotency, schema changes, backfills).
• Comfortable with ambiguity, writes well, and is collaborative and low-ego.

Required skills

• Postgres replication, including logical replication, WAL and replication slots.
• Analytical destinations such as BigQuery, Snowflake, ClickHouse or lakehouse formats such as Iceberg.
• Rust (not required but a plus).

What we offer

• Fully remote work, with a WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
• Equity (ESOP) for every team member.
• Tech allowance for equipment and health insurance coverage (100% for employees, 80% for dependents).
• Annual off-site, flexible asynchronous work, and an annual education allowance.