# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Supabase](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/supabase)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Linear, Performance Management, 1:1S, Career Development, Onboarding, Hiring, Roadmap Planning, Project Management, Slo Management, Incident Response, Post-Incident Reviews, Remote Team Management, Async Communication
**Posted:** 2026-06-22

> Lead engineering teams at Supabase across developer surfaces, backend services, Platform, EngOps, or Databases. Own people management, hiring, delivery, and incident response in a remote-first environment.

## Job Description

## 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 direct reports
- Handle people admin (leave, time off, etc.) for the team

### Hiring
- Own the hiring plan for the team and act as Hiring Manager
- Serve as first round 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

### Delivery & Roadmap
- Own the team's roadmap and project management (Linear), driving accountability and clear milestones
- Manage workflow intake and Slack triage for cross-team requests
- Own the team's weekly updates and keep stakeholders aligned
- 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 and 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 managing remote, globally distributed teams that work asynchronously across disparate time zones
- Technical credibility with strong engineers while being genuinely passionate about people management
- Track record of building psychological safety and a feedback culture
- Experience with performance management and difficult conversations
- Comfortable with ambiguity and capable of building structure
- Clear written communication skills; default async and written
- Collaborative, low-ego, and adaptable

## Nice to Have
- Experience with developer tools or databases

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