Product Manager - Postgres

Role overview

Own the product experience of Postgres within a managed developer platform, spanning database versions, upgrades, maintenance, observability, extensions, and security. You will work closely with database engineers and other product partners to shape technical requirements and make essential database operations predictable and understandable for customers. The role suits someone who combines product judgment with practical database knowledge.

Responsibilities - Set the supported Postgres version policy and plan upgrades and end-of-life transitions so customers can move between versions with confidence. - Design maintenance processes and communications that make service windows predictable and minimize disruption. - Improve how developers diagnose database performance through queries, metrics, logs, and advisory tools. - Guide the extension ecosystem, including evaluation, support, and compatibility across database versions. - Shape database security, including roles, permissions, Row Level Security usability, secure defaults, and responses to vulnerabilities. - Gather input from developers ranging from individual builders to enterprise teams, and use it to prioritize work. - Define success measures before delivery and track outcomes such as upgrade success, supported-version coverage, and diagnosis time. - Keep engineering, support, and go-to-market teams aligned on plans, version changes, and deprecations.

Requirements - Four or more years of product management in databases, developer tools, or infrastructure, or equivalent depth as an engineer, DBA, or founder moving into product. - Strong Postgres knowledge, or experience with another relational database and the ability to ramp quickly; familiarity with EXPLAIN output, replication, WAL, roles, and extensions is expected. - Experience shipping products where reliability and user trust are central, treating outages and breaking changes as product concerns. - Clear writing for specifications, customer announcements, and deprecation notices. - A hands-on approach to products, including running queries, testing upgrades, and trying extensions. - Ability to work asynchronously and make decisions in writing; familiarity with AI tools for research and synthesis is expected.

Nice to have

Experience with managed databases, running Postgres in production, observability or database security products, open-source database contributions, or building with the platform.

Benefits and work setup

The role is fully remote and open globally, with an asynchronous work style. Listed support includes a coworking allowance, equity, a technology budget, health insurance for employees and partial dependent coverage, an annual education allowance, and yearly team gatherings.