Head of Observability
Core
Define and execute end-to-end observability strategy for Supabase, covering internal platform reliability and customer-facing product visibility for developers.
Role type
Head of Observability (Strategy & Engineering Leadership)
Builds
Internal observability platform for incident response and reliability; customer-facing dashboards, logs explorer, and metrics for developers.
Domain
Devtools / Cloud Infrastructure / Observability
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Observability strategy definition, architecture design, SLO/SLI management, team building and leadership, high-throughput data pipeline orchestration, OpenTelemetry standards, product thinking for developer experience.
Preferred skills
Customer-facing observability product experience, Elixir/Erlang production experience, open source observability contributions, dogfooding own tooling.
Technologies
Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, Elixir, Erlang.
Responsibilities
Define observability strategy (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting), evaluate and evolve the observability stack, build and lead the observability engineering team, orchestrate telemetry data pipelines, establish SLOs and error budgets, own customer-facing observability product experience.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities