Engineering Manager, Postgres

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop a team of Postgres engineers through mentorship, constructive feedback, and clear technical direction.

• Drive significant product initiatives from conception to launch while ensuring a balance of speed, reliability, and quality.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Infrastructure teams to convert customer requirements into technical solutions and product roadmaps.

• Direct system design choices and assist in navigating architectural trade-offs.

• Encourage a culture of ownership, accountability, and continual enhancement in engineering practices and team workflows.

• Decompose complex challenges into manageable milestones that quickly deliver value and support the long-term evolution of the platform.

• Ensure comprehension of both developer experience and customer impact for features developed by the team.

• Work with product management, customers, and internal teams to prioritize tasks and deliver meaningful features and solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience as an Engineer delivering products and/or features with downstream effects on the business and product ecosystem.

• Preferably, experience in building stateful services.

• At least 2 years of experience in personnel management and engineer development, including recruiting, mentoring, and performance evaluation.

• Strong technical foundation in system design, architecture, and engineering trade-offs.

• A product-oriented mindset with a track record of translating business objectives and user needs into engineering roadmaps and deployed features.

• Capability to balance urgency with deliberate execution while upholding high standards of quality.

• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills across engineering, product, and design teams.

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

• Generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship; existing visa transfers may be sponsored at Render's discretion, pending business authorization for applicants requiring sponsorship.

• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.

• Long-term disability insurance.

• Life insurance.

• 401K plans.

• 100% employer-paid medical coverage for you and a dependent.

• 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.

• FSAs and HSAs available.

• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.

• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.

• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area.

• Home office stipends for remote Renders.

• Continuous learning benefits & related support.

• Equity offered.