Engineering Manager - Pipelines

About the role

Leads the Pipelines engineering team at Supabase, a managed change data capture product built on Postgres logical replication and the open source Supabase ETL engine, covering people management, hiring, delivery and incident command. Suited to engineering managers with a strong technical background in data systems and experience managing remote, globally distributed teams.

What you'll do

• 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 such as leave and time off for the team.
• Own the hiring plan and act as Hiring Manager, including first-round interviews for all team roles.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and close candidates.
• Contribute to headcount planning, org design, and the evolution of engineering leadership.
• Own the team's roadmap and project management in Linear, driving accountability and clear milestones.
• Manage workflow intake and Slack triage, deciding what gets routed, prioritized, or pushed back on.
• 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.
• Train as an Incident Commander and drive coordination, resolution, and post-incident follow-up.
• Lead blameless post-incident reviews.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of engineering background with enough depth to be credible with engineers building complex systems.
• 3+ years managing remote engineering teams.
• Experience managing a team that built and ran data pipelines, change data capture, replication or streaming systems.
• Strong technical credibility in data systems, including delivery guarantees, ordering, idempotency, schema changes and backfills.
• Knowledge of Postgres replication, including logical replication, the WAL and replication slots, and their effect on a production database.
• Knowledge of analytical destinations such as BigQuery, Snowflake, ClickHouse or lakehouse table formats like Iceberg.
• Experience leading a team through production incidents on a system holding customer data, including follow-up work and blameless reviews.
• Experience shipping a developer-facing data product to customers outside the company.
• Experience managing remote, globally distributed teams working asynchronously across time zones.
• Strong feedback culture and psychological safety practices, with specific examples of difficult performance conversations.
• Coaches rather than directs, and operates as a multiplier for the team.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to build structure where little exists.
• Communicates clearly and writes well, defaulting to async and written communication.
• Collaborative, low-ego and adaptable, working well with high-autonomy senior engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with Rust.

Benefits listed by Supabase

• Fully remote work with a WeWork membership or co-working allowance
• Equity ownership (ESOP) in the company
• Tech allowance for equipment and work environment
• Health insurance coverage for employees and dependents
• Annual company off-site
• Flexible, asynchronous work arrangement
• Annual education allowance for professional development

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