# Senior Engineering Manager, Postgres

**Company:** [Clickhouse](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickhouse)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Infrastructure As Code, Database Replication, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Observability, SLOs, Wal
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Leads the team responsible for building and operating a reliable managed PostgreSQL service, combining people leadership, technical direction, roadmap ownership, and operational accountability. Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing infrastructure, database, or developer-platform engineers.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing engineering team through clear expectations, feedback, development, and performance management.
- Own outcomes across provisioning, fleet management, failover, point-in-time recovery, upgrades, observability, performance, and security.
- Translate customer and business needs into a multi-quarter roadmap with incremental milestones.
- Guide architecture and help senior engineers make sound technical tradeoffs.
- Improve operational quality across SLOs, on-call, incidents, maintenance, and automation.
- Work directly with customers and turn recurring pain into product improvements.
- Align dependencies, surface risks early, and maintain predictable execution across a distributed organization.
- Hire PostgreSQL, systems, infrastructure, reliability, and product engineering talent while fostering ownership and technical debate.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineers in infrastructure, databases, or developer platforms.
- Experience building and operating customer-facing stateful services with demanding availability, durability, security, and performance requirements.
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL or managed relational databases, including replication, WAL, high availability, recovery, upgrades, observability, or performance diagnosis.
- Technical credibility to engage deeply in architecture and incidents without owning daily implementation.
- Experience hiring, coaching, developing, and retaining engineers, including senior individual contributors.
- Strong execution judgment across ambiguity, parallel workstreams, risk, and long-term system health.
- Customer mindset, strong product partnership, clear communication, and distributed-team leadership.

## Nice to have
- Managed PostgreSQL, relational database, or cloud control-plane leadership.
- PostgreSQL internals, extensions, replication, storage, performance, or database reliability expertise.
- AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, or multi-region experience.
- Experience taking infrastructure from early adoption through general availability.
- Open-source, technical writing, speaking, startup, or founder experience.

## Compensation and benefits
- Equity in the company through stock options.
- Flexible time off; generous entitlement in countries outside the US.
- USD $500 home-office setup benefit for remote employees.
- Employer healthcare contributions.
- Flexible, remote-friendly work environment and global company gatherings.

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