Engineering Manager – Spark

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About the role

  • Engineering Manager leading remote teams building Supabase Spark, an agentic database platform. Owning people management, hiring, roadmap delivery, and incident response.

Responsibilities

  • Lead engineering efforts for Supabase Spark, an initiative building agentic databases supporting billions of databases
  • Participate in design discussions and set standards for engineering quality and best practices
  • Build a healthy, high-trust team culture in a remote-first, globally distributed environment
  • Run 1:1s, performance management, career development, and onboarding for direct reports
  • Manage team leave, time off, and other people administration
  • Own the team hiring plan and act as Hiring Manager
  • Conduct first-round interviews and partner with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and close candidates
  • Contribute to headcount planning, organizational design, and engineering leadership development
  • Own the team roadmap and project management using Linear
  • Manage workflow intake and Slack triage; route, prioritize, or push back on cross-team requests
  • Own weekly team updates and keep stakeholders aligned
  • Organize support-ticket efforts and maintain the team’s SLO
  • Surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to leadership
  • Train as an Incident Commander and drive incident coordination, resolution, and follow-up
  • Lead blameless post-incident reviews

Requirements

  • 5+ years of engineering experience
  • 3+ years managing remote engineering teams
  • Experience managing engineering teams at a cloud, SaaS, or developer tools company
  • Experience with developer tools or databases; experience with both SQLite and Postgres ecosystems is a plus
  • Strong technical credibility in backend and database systems, including APIs, auth, and Postgres access control (roles, grants, RLS)
  • Experience leading a team shipping a developer-facing API or platform product from early stage to production
  • Experience managing remote, globally distributed teams working asynchronously across disparate time zones
  • Genuine passion for people management
  • Experience building psychological safety and a feedback culture
  • Track record of performance management, including difficult conversations
  • Comfort with ambiguity and building structure
  • Clear communication and strong writing skills
  • Collaborative, low-ego, and adaptable working style
  • Comfort with aggressive scoping and eval-driven development

Benefits

  • Fully remote work
  • WeWork membership or co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world
  • ESOP equity ownership for every team member
  • Tech allowance for laptop, monitor, headphones, or other work equipment
  • Health insurance: 100% covered for employees and 80% for dependents
  • Annual company off-sites
  • Flexible, asynchronous work
  • Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other learning
  • Global, remote-first work environment

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

CloudPostgresSparkSQLite

Location requirements

RemoteWorldwide

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