Realtime Engineering Manager — Remote, High-Impact Lead

Candidate; Stati Uniti; Remoto; USD 180.000 - 230.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Fully Remote

ESOP

Tech Allowance

Health Benefits

Annual Off-Sites

Flexible Work

Education Allowance

Descrizione del lavoro

Supabase is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Realtime team in a remote-first, globally distributed environment. You will guide a senior engineering group, participate in design discussions, and set the bar for engineering quality, testing and operations to ensure low-latency real-time features like Broadcast, Presence and Postgres Changes.

The role emphasizes people management, hiring, roadmap ownership, incident coordination, and stakeholder alignment.

Competenze

• 5+ years of engineering background with credibility among engineers
• 3+ years managing remote engineering teams
• Led teams building low-latency, high-connection services (WebSockets, pub/sub, messaging, presence)
• Strong credibility in distributed systems (clustering, rate limiting, backpressure)
• Led teams through production incidents on customer-facing services
• Understanding of developers' needs from real-time API/SDK
• Experience with Elixir/Erlang/BEAM is a plus
• Experience with Postgres replication and Row Level Security is a plus
• Managed globally distributed teams working asynchronously across time zones
• Track record in people management and performance conversations
• Able to build psychological safety and feedback culture
• Operate as a multiplier and coach rather than dictate
• Able to mentor and develop engineers while maintaining autonomy
• Comfortable with ambiguity and building structure where lacking
• Excellent written and verbal communication, async-first mindset
• Collaborative, low-ego and adaptable leadership style

Mansioni

• Build a healthy, high-trust team culture in a remote-first, distributed environment
• Run 1:1s, performance management, career development and onboarding for direct reports
• Handle people admin including leave and time off
• Own hiring plan and act as Hiring Manager; participate in interviewing
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to source, interview and close strong candidates
• Contribute to headcount planning and org design
• Own team roadmap and project management (Linear); drive milestones
• Manage workflow intake and Slack triage; route and prioritize requests
• Own weekly updates and keep stakeholders aligned
• Organize effort against support tickets and maintain team SLOs
• Surface risks, dependencies and tradeoffs to leadership
• Train as Incident Commander; drive coordination, resolution and post-incident follow-up
• Lead blameless post-incident reviews

Conoscenze

Engineering experience

Remote team management

Low-latency systems

Distributed systems

Incident management

Real-time API

Elixir/Erlang

Postgres replication

Global teams

People management

Psych safety

Impact multiplier

Coaching

Performance management

Ambiguity tolerance

Clear communication

Collaborative mindset

Descrizione del lavoro

Supabase is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Realtime team in a remote-first, globally distributed environment. You will guide a senior engineering group, participate in design discussions, and set the bar for engineering quality, testing and operations to ensure low-latency real-time features like Broadcast, Presence and Postgres Changes.

The role emphasizes people management, hiring, roadmap ownership, incident coordination, and stakeholder alignment.