Engineering Manager – Spark

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Spearhead engineering initiatives for Supabase Spark, a project focused on developing agentic databases that support billions of databases.

• Engage in design discussions and establish benchmarks for engineering excellence and best practices.

• Foster a positive, high-trust team culture in a remote-first, globally distributed setting.

• Conduct one-on-one meetings, performance evaluations, career growth discussions, and onboarding processes for direct reports.

• Oversee team leave requests, time off, and other administrative people management tasks.

• Take ownership of the team’s hiring strategy and serve as the Hiring Manager.

• Lead initial interviews and collaborate with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and successfully onboard candidates.

• Contribute to workforce planning, organizational structure, and the development of engineering leadership.

• Manage the team’s project roadmap and project management tasks using Linear.

• Oversee workflow intake and Slack triage; prioritize, route, or push back on requests from other teams.

• Provide weekly updates for the team and ensure stakeholders remain in sync.

• Organize support ticket efforts and uphold the team’s Service Level Objectives (SLO).

• Identify and communicate risks, dependencies, and trade-offs to leadership.

• Train as an Incident Commander and lead the coordination, resolution, and follow-up of incidents.

• Facilitate blameless post-incident reviews.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of engineering experience.

• More than 3 years of experience managing remote engineering teams.

• Background in managing engineering teams within cloud, SaaS, or developer tools organizations.

• Familiarity with developer tools or databases; experience with both SQLite and Postgres ecosystems is advantageous.

• Strong technical credibility in backend and database systems, including APIs, authentication, and Postgres access control (roles, grants, RLS).

• Proven experience leading a team in launching a developer-facing API or platform product from initial stages to production.

• Experience managing remote, globally distributed teams collaborating asynchronously across various time zones.

• A genuine interest in people management.

• Experience in cultivating psychological safety and a culture of feedback.

• A track record of performance management, including handling difficult conversations.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and create structure.

• Excellent communication and writing skills.

• Collaborative, low-ego, and adaptable work approach.

• Comfort with aggressive scoping and evaluation-driven development.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote working opportunities.

• WeWork membership or co-working allowance applicable globally.

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) equity for all team members.

• Technology allowance for laptops, monitors, headphones, or other necessary work equipment.

• Comprehensive health insurance: fully covered for employees and 80% for dependents.

• Annual company retreats.

• Flexible, asynchronous working hours.

• Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other learning opportunities.

• A global, remote-first work environment.