Engineering Manager - Realtime

About the role

Supabase, the Postgres development platform, is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead its Realtime team. Realtime provides low-latency messaging, user-state synchronization and database change listening (Broadcast, Presence and Postgres Changes) via a globally distributed Elixir cluster built on Phoenix. The role is people, delivery and technical: you will lead a team of experienced engineers without writing production code, while joining design discussions and setting standards for 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.
• Handle people admin such as leave and time off.
• Own the hiring plan and act as Hiring Manager, interviewing first for all team roles and partnering with Talent Acquisition.
• Contribute to headcount planning, org design and the evolution of engineering leadership.
• Own the team's roadmap and project management (Linear), manage workflow intake and Slack triage, and organize weekly updates.
• Organize effort against support tickets, maintain the team's SLO, and surface risks and trade-offs early.
• Train as an Incident Commander, drive resolution and lead 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 a team that built and ran a low-latency, high-connection service (WebSockets, pub/sub, messaging, presence or streaming).
• Strong technical credibility in distributed systems (clustering, rate limiting, backpressure, capacity planning) and experience leading teams through production incidents.
• Experience shipping a real-time API or SDK to customers outside your company.
• Track record of performance management and ability to handle difficult conversations.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, writes well, and works collaboratively with high-autonomy senior engineers.

Required skills

• Elixir, Erlang or BEAM (not required but a plus)
• Postgres logical replication and Row Level Security (not required but a plus)

What we offer

• Fully remote work, hired globally, with a WeWork membership or co-working allowance.
• ESOP equity ownership for every team member.
• Tech allowance for equipment and health insurance covering employees fully and dependents 80%.
• Annual off-site, flexible asynchronous work, and an annual education allowance.