Engineering Manager at Neon Database
Fedor Volkov | t.me/owlkovNeon 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)