Engineering Manager at Neon Database

Neon is an open-source company on a mission to create a cloud-native Postgres database as a service for every developer

We are looking for an Engineering Manager who will manage and scale a distributed team of top-performing Postgres hackers and engineers.

You drive engineering happiness and growth, both on a personal and professional level. You ensure delivery of a game-changing PostgreSQL solution on time and with quality.

You will

• Manage a distributed team of ~10 people located in 3+ time zones across USA&Europe
• Remove obstacles that impact team productivity to build a high-performing team
• Spend a significant part of your time coaching and helping engineers to thrive and grow: evaluate performance, support career plans
• Participate in code reviews, code ~50% of the time (a big part is low-level system coding)
• Pair with tech leaders and products to build an efficient process that defeats tech debt improves code quality and minimizes the time to market
• Set up a healthy on-call process for the team
• Expand our impact by interviewing and hiring great Software Engineers

We are looking for someone who has

• Recent 3+ years of experience in an engineering management role, 5+ years in system coding (Rust, C, C++)
• Background in building/managing teams for a cloud service or a platform
• Traction in managing and scaling distributed teams at various timezone
• Proven coaching ability, including strong communication, emotional IQ, and prioritization skills
• Experience in planning and delivering experimental features, and overseeing execution to deliver with predictability
• Experience in implementing tools, processes, and resolving blockages
• Excellent English verbal and writing skills (native or near-native speaker)
• Experience with open-source projects and developing publicly is a plus
• Data-driven, curious, have the attention to detail, passion for CS papers, and biased to stay up to date with the latest trend in storage systems

About Neon

We are open source, a multi-cloud alternative to AWS Aurora. About to launch our product

Our Team

• We are distributed team of 30 people working from North America, Europe, and the Middle East
• Team with decades of experience building databases and deep knowledge of Postgres internals
• We have experienced Postgres committers and hackers on the team (check Heikki, Peter, Anastasia, Arseny, Matthias)
• CEO is a serial entrepreneur, co-founded SingleStore (MemSQL) and scaled it from 0 to $40m in ARR. Holds Ph.D. in CS, several patents, and was a world medalist in ACM programming contests
• We aim for a diversity of thoughts and backgrounds
• We are keen to be a fast-moving flat org and avoid hierarchical structures

Our Investors

• Top-tier investors voted for our vision with their dollars:We raised $24m in Seed/Series A from legendary Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund
• Guillermo Rauch, Elad Gil, Neha Narkhede, Jordan Walke and other angels backed us up
• Leigh Marie Braswell (Founders Fund, former pm & early eng at scale.ai) and Quentin Clark (Managing Director at General Catalyst, former CTO of Dropbox and CVP at Microsoft) are on our Board

Our Offer

• You have an opportunity to be an early employee in the fast-scaling ambitious team
• You can work 100% remote: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home
• We pay top of the market in most parts of the world
• We grant equity (stock options) for all full-time hires
• We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, med insurance, and much more)
• We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Mexico)