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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.\nAbout the Role\nWe're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Realtime team at Supabase. Realtime lets developers send low-latency messages between clients, track and synchronize user state, and listen to database changes. Those three features are Broadcast, Presence and Postgres Changes. Broadcast also sends from the database and over HTTP, and clients can replay recent messages.\nRealtime is a globally distributed Elixir cluster built on Phoenix. The team balances low latency, fair limits between projects, and the cost of running the service. Customers expect connections to stay up, so reliability matters as much as new features.\nThe Engineering Manager is a people, delivery and technical role. We don't expect you to write production code, but you you will lead a team of experienced engineers. 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You decide what gets routed where, prioritized, or pushed back on.\n\nOwn the team's weekly updates and keep stakeholders aligned without creating overhead.\n\nOrganize effort against support tickets and maintain the team's SLO.\n\nSurface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs early and clearly to leadership.\n\nIncident Commander\nTrain as an Incident Commander. Drive coordination, resolution, and post-incident follow-up.\n\nLead blameless post-incident reviews\n\nYou Might Be a Good Fit If You\nHave 5+ years of engineering background, with enough depth to be credible with engineers building complex systems.\n\nHave 3+ years managing remote engineering teams.\n\nHave managed a team that built and ran a low-latency, high-connection service. Examples are WebSockets, pub/sub, messaging, presence or streaming systems.\n\nHave strong technical credibility in distributed systems. We look for clustering, rate limiting, backpressure and capacity planning.\n\nHave led a team through production incidents on a customer-facing service. You ran the follow-up work and kept the review blameless.\n\nUnderstand what developers need from a real-time API or SDK, and have shipped one to customers outside your company.\n\nHave experience with Elixir, Erlang or BEAM (not required but a plus).\n\nHave experience with Postgres logical replication and Row Level Security (not required but a plus).\n\nHave managed remote, globally distributed teams that work asynchronously across disparate time zones.\n\nAre 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.\n\nBuild 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.\n\nOperate as a multiplier. You help individuals achieve more than they could alone, and you don't need to be the best technical voice in the room.\n\nCoach rather than direct. You remove blockers, connect people to context, and trust your engineers to own how the work gets done.\n\nHave a real track record of performance management and can speak to specific examples of difficult conversations.\n\nAre comfortable with ambiguity and can build structure where there isn't much.\n\nCommunicate clearly and write well. You default to async and written, set context early, and surface risks early.\n\nAre collaborative, low-ego and adaptable. You thrive with high-autonomy senior engineers who don't need you to be the smartest person in the room.\n\nWhat We Offer\nFully Remote\nWe 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.\n\nESOP\nEvery team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.\n\nTech Allowance\nUse this budget to set up your ideal work environment-laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.\n\nHealth Benefits\nSupabase 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.\n\nAnnual Off-Sites\nOnce 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.\n\nFlexible Work\nWe operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when.\n\nProfessional Development\nEvery team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning-courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth.\n\nAbout the Team\nSupabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love.\n~400 team members\n\n60+ countries\n\n20+ languages spoken\n\nOver $1B raised (including our $500M Series F)\n\n540,000+ community members\n\nWe move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. 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