Engineering Manager - Spark

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 effort on Supabase Spark. Supabase Spark is an initiative to build the next frontier of agentic databases, supporting billions of databases, with millions of databases created every day.

Although we don’t require 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.

Responsibilities

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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering background, with enough depth to be credible with engineers building complex systems.
• 3+ years managing remote engineering teams.
• Experience managing engineering teams at a cloud, SaaS, or developer tools company.
• Experience with developer tools or databases; a plus if that includes both SQLite and Postgres ecosystems.
• Strong technical credibility in backend and database systems: APIs, auth, and Postgres access control (roles, grants, RLS) etc.
• Has led a team shipping a developer facing API or platform product from early stage to production.
• Experience managing remote, globally distributed teams that work asynchronously across disparate time zones.
• Technical depth combined with a genuine passion for people management.
• Proven track record building psychological safety and feedback culture.
• Acts as a multiplier and coach rather than director.
• Proven track record in performance management and navigating difficult conversations.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and creating structure.
• Strong written and async communication skills.
• Collaborative, low-ego, adaptable, and comfortable with aggressive scoping and eval-driven development.