Head of Observability

About the Role

We're looking for a Head of Observability to join our Observability team and define the future of how Supabase is monitored, debugged, and understood. The group is responsible for supporting our engineers internally, and the millions of developers building on our platform.

You'll own the observability strategy end-to-end: the internal platform our teams rely on for incident response and reliability, and the customer-facing product that gives developers deep visibility into their Supabase projects. You'll have significant latitude to evaluate our current tooling, make build-vs-buy decisions, and chart the technical direction for the function.

This role is ideal for someone who has built or significantly scaled an observability platform at a devtools company, hyperscaler, or high-scale tech company who is excited about doing it again with a wide mandate and decision-making authority.

What You'll Be Responsible For

Strategy & Architecture

• Define and execute the observability strategy for Supabase, covering logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and profiling

• Evaluate and evolve the observability stack: define the right long-term architecture

• Drive convergence toward a single-pane-of-glass experience internally, creating a cohesive and modern platform

• Establish SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and capacity planning practices that make observability a first-class input to reliability programs

Product & Customer Experience

• 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,