Product Manager, Postgres Database Platform at Supabase

About Supabase

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. It provides a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.

About the Role

Supabase is hiring a Product Manager to own Postgres itself. Every Supabase project is a full Postgres database, and Postgres is the foundation that Auth, Storage, Realtime and Edge Functions run on. In this role you will own the product experience of the database: Postgres versions and upgrades, maintenance, observability, extensions and security.

You will work closely with the Postgres engineering teams and with the PM lead for Databases, who leads Multigres. You will define the Postgres requirements that architecture must meet, and own how customers experience their database through that transition.

This role is ideal for someone who loves Postgres, sweats the details that make a database trustworthy, and is excited about improving the experience for millions of developers. Small improvements here compound across every project on the platform.

What You Will Be Responsible For

• Own Postgres versions, upgrades and end-of-life. Decide which major and minor versions are supported, how and when customers upgrade, and how old versions are retired. The goal is to make upgrades routine rather than risky.
• Make maintenance predictable. Design how maintenance windows are scheduled, communicated and run so customers stay informed and in control, and disruption is rare and expected.
• Help developers understand their database. Own query performance, metrics, logs and advisors, and the path from "my database is slow" to the fix.
• Own the extension ecosystem. Decide which extensions are offered, how new ones are evaluated and supported, and how they keep working across versions.
• Own Postgres security. Handle roles and permissions, Row Level Security ergonomics, secure defaults, and responses to Postgres and extension CVEs.
• Talk to developers across the full spectrum, from indie developers on their first project to enterprises running critical workloads, and bring what you learn into every prioritization call.
• Own the problem definition, requirements and success metrics for what ships, such as upgrade success rate, the share of the fleet on supported versions, and time-to-diagnose for performance problems. Set the metric before the team builds, then track it after launch.
• Keep Engineering, Support and GTM aligned. Own the plan of record for what is coming, why, and in what order, and communicate version changes and deprecations clearly to customers.

Must Have

• 4+ years of Product Management experience on databases, developer tools or infrastructure, or equivalent depth as an engineer, DBA or founder moving into product. Comfortable commenting on an architecture doc and advocating for the user when trade-offs are required.
• Know Postgres well, or another relational database well enough to ramp quickly. Comfortable reading EXPLAIN output and talking about replication, WAL, roles and extensions.
• Have shipped products where reliability and trust are the experience. Treat downtime and breaking changes as product problems, not just operational ones.
• Write clearly. Specs, announcements and deprecation notices should leave little room for confusion.
• Build with what you own. Run queries, test upgrades and try extensions yourself, and form opinions through first-hand use.
• Use AI to move faster. Use AI tools to compress research, drafting and feedback synthesis so more time is spent on judgment calls.
• Work async by default. Supabase is fully remote. Make decisions in writing and move work forward without meetings.

Strong Signal

• Worked on a managed database service.
• Ran Postgres in production: upgrades, tuning, incident response.
• Worked on database observability, performance tooling, or security and compliance products.
• Contributed to Postgres, its extensions, or the wider open-source community.
• Shipped something using Supabase.

What We Offer

• Fully Remote: Supabase hires globally and believes you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but a WeWork membership or co-working allowance is provided that you can use anywhere in the world.
• ESOP: Every team member receives equity ownership in the company, so everyone shares in the upside of what is being built together.
• Tech Allowance: Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment, including laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
• Health Benefits: Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are.
• Annual Off-Sites: Once a year, the entire company gathers in a new city for a week of connection, collaboration, and fun.
• Flexible Work: Operate asynchronously and trusted to manage your own time.
• Professional Development: Every team member receives an annual education allowance to spend on learning, courses, books, conferences, or anything that supports growth.

About the Team

Supabase was born remote and open source first. The globally distributed team is the secret weapon in building tools developers love.

• ~400 team members
• 60+ countries
• 20+ languages spoken
• Over $1B raised, including a $500M Series F
• 540,000+ community members

Supabase moves fast, builds in public, and uses what it ships. If it is in your project, they probably use it in theirs too. The company believes deeply in the open source ecosystem and strives to support, not replace, existing tools and communities.