Engineering Manager - Realtime
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SupabaseRealtime infrastructure
Remote, Global, Asynchronously across disparate time zonesFull-TimeManager
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years of engineering background; 3+ years managing remote engineering teams.
- Required Skills
- SlackDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of engineering background.
- Have 3+ years managing remote engineering teams.
- Have managed a team building and operating a low-latency, high-connection service, such as WebSockets, pub/sub, messaging, presence, or streaming systems.
- Have technical credibility in distributed systems, including clustering, rate limiting, backpressure, and capacity planning.
- Have led a team through production incidents on a customer-facing service and managed follow-up work and blameless reviews.
- Understand developer needs for real-time APIs or SDKs and have shipped one to customers outside your company.
- Have managed remote, globally distributed teams working asynchronously across time zones.
- Have experience with performance management, including specific examples of difficult conversations.
- Communicate clearly and write well, with an ability to work asynchronously and surface risks early.
- Experience with Elixir, Erlang, or BEAM is a plus, not required.
- Experience with Postgres logical replication and Row Level Security is a plus, not required.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain a healthy, high-trust team culture in a remote-first, globally distributed environment.
- Run 1:1s, performance management, career development, onboarding, and people administration for direct reports.
- Own the team's hiring plan and act as hiring manager, partnering with Talent Acquisition to source, interview, and close candidates.
- Own the team's roadmap and project management in Linear, setting clear milestones and accountability.
- Manage workflow intake and Slack triage for cross-team requests, prioritizing, routing, or pushing back as appropriate.
- Provide weekly updates and keep stakeholders aligned.
- Organize support-ticket work and maintain the team's SLO.
- Surface risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to leadership.
- Coordinate incidents and resolution, and lead blameless post-incident reviews and follow-up.
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