CLI Team Lead

About Supabase

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide 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

We are looking for a Team Lead: CLI/Local Experience to join our Dev Workflow team and lead a high-impact area of the developer experience. You will guide both technical direction and team execution for Supabase CLI and local development workflows across Windows, Linux, and macOS.

This is a hands-on leadership role with an expected split of roughly 60% engineering / 40% leadership. You will partner with PM and engineering leadership on roadmap priorities, drive delivery with your team, and ensure we ship a consistent, secure, and performant CLI experience for developers at scale.

You will start with 3 direct reports and are expected to grow and lead the team to 6 engineers over the next 6-12 months.

What You'll Own

• Lead the CLI/Local Experience team, including coaching, 1:1s, goal setting, formal performance reviews, and promotion recommendations.

• Own the team hiring plan and run the full hiring loop for CLI/Local Experience roles.

• Drive technical strategy with the team and partners through RFCs, design reviews, and iterative delivery.

• Contribute directly to implementation in TypeScript, with a strong focus on architecture, reliability, and maintainability.

• Ensure technical excellence across team output, including code quality, test coverage, release readiness, and backwards compatibility.

• Unblock engineers day to day and improve workflow and delivery practices (for example, planning and execution in Linear).

• Partner with PM and engineering leadership in a shared roadmap model to define priorities, scope, and outcomes.

• Monitor customer feedback, OSS issues, and usage signals to continuously improve local development DX.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful work on command-line developer tools.

• Strong professional experience in TypeScript and a track record of shipping production-grade CLI tooling.

• Prior experience leading engineers, including people management responsibilities (performance, growth, and hiring) in a distributed and async environment.

• Deep understanding of cross-platform concerns: filesystem behavior, subprocesses, terminal UX, and platform-specific quirks across macOS/Linux/Windows.

• Experience designing intuitive CLIs with clear command structure, helpful output, and actionable error messaging.

• Experience with testing strategy for CLIs (unit, integration, and end-to-end) and CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with release/versioning strategies and backwards compatibility in widely used developer tooling.

• Working knowledge of containerized local workflows (for example Docker) and Postgres-oriented development workflows.

• Ability to collaborate effectively in async, distributed teams and drive outcomes through clear written communication.

Decision-Making and Collaboration

• This role operates in a shared consensus model for major technical decisions with peers and leadership.

• You are expected to lead proposals and recommendations, align stakeholders, and move decisions to clear outcomes.

What We Offer

• 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.

• ESOP

  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.

• Health Benefits

  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

  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.

About the Team

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

• 55+ countries

• 20+ languages spoken

• $500M raised

• 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.

Hiring Process

We keep things simple, async-friendly, and respectful of your time:

1. Apply – Our team will review your application.

2. Intro Call – A short video chat to get to know each other.

3. Interviews – Up to four calls with:

   • Team Leads

   • Future teammates

   • Someone cross-functional from product, growth, or engineering (depending on the role)

   • Someone from our leadership/founding team

4. Decision – We may follow up with a final question or go straight to offer.

All communication is remote and we aim to move fast.