Engineering Manager, Postgres

Role overview As an Engineering Manager for a managed database product, you’ll lead engineers building and maintaining a stateful service used by developers. You’ll combine team development and technical leadership with a product-oriented approach, working across product, design, and infrastructure to turn customer needs into a reliable, scalable roadmap. The role calls for a strong engineering foundation and sustained attention to system health and customer impact.

Responsibilities - Lead and develop engineers through hiring, mentorship, feedback, and performance management. - Set technical direction and guide system design and architecture decisions. - Plan and deliver product initiatives from discovery through launch, balancing pace with reliability and quality. - Partner with product, design, infrastructure, customers, and internal teams to align priorities and shape solutions. - Break complex work into incremental milestones that deliver value while supporting long-term system evolution. - Help the team improve engineering practices, ownership, and the developer experience of the product.

Requirements - 8+ years of engineering experience delivering products or features with downstream business or product impact; stateful services experience is preferred. - 2+ years managing and developing engineers, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management. - Strong ability to engage in system design, architecture, and engineering tradeoffs. - Experience turning business goals and user needs into engineering roadmaps and shipped features. - Ability to balance urgency with thoughtful execution and high-quality outcomes. - Strong communication, collaboration, and ownership across team outcomes and long-term system health.

Nice to have - Experience with developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, DevTools, or scalable distributed systems. - Background improving engineering velocity through tools, processes, or team practices. - Experience building products for technical users or partnering across product, marketing, and customer support to improve adoption and retention.

Benefits and work setup - Four weeks of paid vacation and 14 weeks of paid parental leave. - Employer-paid medical coverage, plus dental and vision coverage for employees and a dependent; FSA and HSA options. - Disability and life insurance, and a 401(k) plan. - Monthly lifestyle, phone, and internet subsidies; remote home-office stipends or Bay Area commuter benefits. - Learning support. New visa sponsorship is generally unavailable; existing visa transfers may be considered with business approval.