Engineering Manager, Postgres

About the role

We're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.

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.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner closely with product management, customers, and internal teams to understand needs, align priorities, and ensure delivery of impactful features and solutions.

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.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability for both team outcomes and long-term system health.

Qualifications

• Nice-to-haves include experience building products for developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or DevTools.
• Experience improving engineering velocity through tooling, processes, and team practices.
• Experience building products used directly by developers or technical users.
• A track record of successful collaboration with product, marketing, and customer support teams to drive adoption and retention.

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.
• This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.
• Benefits & related support include continuous learning benefits, monthly lifestyle stipend, cell phone and internet subsidy, commuter benefits, and more.

Pay

Competitive salary and equity package.

Schedule

Full-time, remote work.

Skills

• PostgreSQL expertise.
• Strong problem-solving and technical leadership skills.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and DevOps tools.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

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.
• This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.
• Benefits & related support include continuous learning benefits, monthly lifestyle stipend, cell phone and internet subsidy, commuter benefits, and more.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or disability.