Supabase - Head of Observability
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Requirements
• Own the customer-facing observability experience including dashboards, logs explorer, metrics, alerts — and work with Product to make it best-in-class for developers • Champion a dogfooding culture where our internal observability platform and our customer-facing product converge, creating a tight feedback loop • Define and deploy best observability practices across our suite of products • Team & Org • Build and lead a world-class observability engineering team. Set the bar for hiring, mentorship, and technical excellence • Collaborate with every engineering team to embed consistent, high-quality instrumentation across all Supabase services using OpenTelemetry and related standards • Contribute to org-wide documentation, advocacy of best practices, and enforcement of telemetry standards • Infrastructure & Operations • Orchestrate and scale high-throughput data pipelines for telemetry ingestion, storage, and querying • Own the reliability, performance, scaling, and efficiency of observability infrastructure • You Might Be a Good Fit If You • Have 8+ years of engineering experience, with 3+ years leading or managing teams • Have built, significantly evolved, or operated an observability platform at scale • Are deeply technical across the observability stack: logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, dashboarding. You understand the trade-offs and have strong opinions on architecture • Have hands-on experience with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, or similar, at production scale • Think about observability as a product, not just infrastructure. You care about the developer experience of the people using your systems • Communicate clearly across both technical and non-technical audiences, and write well • Are comfortable navigating ambiguity, making high-stakes technical decisions, and moving quickly in a remote-first environment • Have experience building customer-facing observability products (not just internal platforms) • Have worked with Elixir/Erlang in production • Have contributed to open source observability projects • Have experience at a company that dogfoods its own observability tooling
Benefits
• Fully Remote • We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world. • Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together. • Tech Allowance • Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work. • Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family’s health are important to us. • Annual Off-Sites • Annual Off-Sites • Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun. It’s a highlight of our year. • Flexible Work • We operate asynchronously and trust you to manage your own time. You know what needs to be done and when. • Professional Development • Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning—courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports your growth. • Supabase was born-remote and open-source-first. We believe our globally distributed team is our secret weapon in building tools developers love. • 280+ team members • 20+ languages spoken • 500,000+ community members • We move fast, build in public, and use what we ship. If it’s in your project, we probably use it in ours too. We believe deeply in the open-source ecosystem and strive to support—not replace—existing tools and communities. • We keep things simple, async-friendly, and respectful of your time: • Intro Call – A short video chat to get to know each other. • Interviews – Up to four calls with: • Future teammates • Someone cross-functional from product, growth, or engineering (depending on the role) • Someone from our leadership/founding team • Decision – We may follow up with a final question or go straight to offer. • All communication is remote and we aim to move fast.
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