# Postgres Product Engineer

**Company:** [Render](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/render)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $204k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Postgres, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go, TypeScript, React, Temporal
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> Operate and evolve Render's managed Postgres fleet at scale. Take end-to-end ownership of full-stack projects to improve the Postgres product for millions of developers, with on-call duties.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Operate and maintain the Render Postgres fleet.
- Collaborate closely with design, product, other engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Help evolve and mature the Render Postgres product as it scales and increases in complexity over time.
- Participate in team planning, roadmapping, and goal-setting.
- Help shape team culture and practices as the company scales.
- Help evolve the Postgres product with new capabilities.
- Participate in on-call responsibilities with the rest of your team.

## What We're Looking For
- 6+ years of professional experience shipping software. Bonus points if you’ve excelled at a small, high-growth startup.
- Experience collaborating with product and design stakeholders.
- Strong sense of ownership and ability to make pragmatic decisions about your work.
- Comfort with working in a distributed system.
- Experience operating Postgres at scale.
- Familiarity with modern tooling for software build and deploy processes.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience wearing multiple hats and working across the stack, both collaboratively and independently.
- Strong understanding of web frameworks, APIs, and databases, and experience working with multiple programming languages.
- Familiarity building for product-driven growth and modern enterprise audiences.
- Experience with any of the technologies the Render product runs on: Go, Typescript, React, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, Temporal.

## Benefits
- 4 weeks of paid vacation.
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
- Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
- 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage.
- FSAs and HSAs available.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, hobbies, etc.
- Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
- Commuter benefits for Bay Area; home office stipends for remote.
- Continuous learning benefits.

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