Engineering Manager, Postgres

About the role

Lead and grow a team of postgres engineers, supporting their development through mentorship, feedback, and clear technical guidance. Drive execution on key product initiatives from ideation through launch, balancing speed with high standards of reliability and quality. Partner closely with Product, Design, and Infra teams to translate customer needs into thoughtful technical solutions and product roadmaps. Engage deeply in technical discussions, guiding system design decisions and helping the team navigate architectural tradeoffs. Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across engineering practices and team processes. Help the team break down complex problems into incremental milestones that deliver value quickly while supporting long-term platform evolution. Ensure teams maintain a strong understanding of the developer experience and customer impact of the features they build.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of postgres engineers, supporting their development through mentorship, feedback, and clear technical guidance.
• Drive execution on key product initiatives from ideation through launch, balancing speed with high standards of reliability and quality.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Infra teams to translate customer needs into thoughtful technical solutions and product roadmaps.
• Engage deeply in technical discussions, guiding system design decisions and helping the team navigate architectural tradeoffs.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across engineering practices and team processes.
• Help the team break down complex problems into incremental milestones that deliver value quickly while supporting long-term platform evolution.
• Ensure teams maintain a strong understanding of the developer experience and customer impact of the features they build.

Requirements

8+ years as an Engineer shipping products and/or features that have downstream impact on the business and product ecosystem. Ideally, experience with building stateful services. 2+ years of experience managing people and developing engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management. Strong technical background with the ability to engage deeply in system design, architecture, and engineering tradeoffs. Product-oriented mindset with experience translating business goals and user needs into engineering roadmaps and shipped features. Ability to balance urgency with thoughtful execution, helping teams ship quickly while maintaining high quality. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and design.

Qualifications

• 8+ years as an Engineer shipping products and/or features that have downstream impact on the business and product ecosystem.
• 2+ years of experience managing people and developing engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management.
• Strong technical background with the ability to engage deeply in system design, architecture, and engineering tradeoffs.
• Product-oriented mindset with experience translating business goals and user needs into engineering roadmaps and shipped features.
• Ability to balance urgency with thoughtful execution, helping teams ship quickly while maintaining high quality.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and design.

Skills

A strong engineering background with the ability to engage deeply in system design, architecture, and engineering tradeoffs. Product-oriented mindset with experience translating business goals and user needs into engineering roadmaps and shipped features. Ability to balance urgency with thoughtful execution, helping teams ship quickly while maintaining high quality. Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and design.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child.
• We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.
• FSAs and HSAs are available as well.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.

Pay

Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Remote.