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 w