Engineering Manager, Postgres

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of Postgres engineers through mentorship, feedback, hiring, and technical guidance.
• Drive product initiatives from ideation through launch while balancing speed, reliability, and quality.
• Partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, customers, and internal stakeholders to translate user needs into technical solutions, roadmaps, and impactful features.
• Guide system design, architectural decisions, and engineering tradeoffs.
• Foster ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and effective engineering practices.
• Break complex problems into incremental milestones that deliver value while supporting long-term platform evolution.
• Ensure the team understands developer experience and customer impact.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as an engineer shipping products or features with downstream business and ecosystem impact.
• 2+ years of experience managing people and developing engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management.
• Strong technical background in system design, architecture, and engineering tradeoffs.
• Experience building stateful services, ideally.
• Product-oriented mindset with experience translating business goals and user needs into engineering roadmaps and shipped features.
• Ability to balance urgency with thoughtful execution and maintain high quality.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Strong ownership and accountability for team outcomes and long-term system health.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or developer tools.
• Experience with highly scalable distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.
• Experience improving engineering velocity through tooling, processes, or team practices.
• Experience building products used directly by developers or technical users.
• Track record of collaborating with product, marketing, and customer support teams to drive adoption and retention.

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual salary: $204,000–$289,000.
• Four weeks of paid vacation.
• Fourteen weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401(k) plans.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Monthly lifestyle, cell phone, and internet stipends.
• Commuter benefits and home office stipends, as applicable.
• Continuous learning benefits and support.