Product Manager – Postgres

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of Postgres versions, including upgrades and end-of-life policies.

• Identify supported major and minor versions, upgrade procedures, and the retirement of outdated versions.

• Design and implement a predictable maintenance schedule, along with effective communication and execution strategies.

• Enhance developer comprehension of database performance through query analysis, performance metrics, logs, and advisory tools.

• Manage the Postgres extension ecosystem, which encompasses extension selection, evaluation, support, and cross-version compatibility.

• Oversee Postgres security aspects, including roles and permissions, Row Level Security ergonomics, secure defaults, and CVE response protocols.

• Engage with developers, from independent creators to enterprise clients, and integrate their feedback into prioritization.

• Define problem statements, requirements, and success metrics clearly.

• Monitor metrics such as upgrade success rates, adoption of supported versions, and the time taken to diagnose performance issues.

• Maintain the plan of record and ensure alignment among Engineering, Support, and GTM teams.

• Clearly communicate version changes and deprecations to customers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years experience in Product Management related to databases, developer tools, or infrastructure, or equivalent experience as an engineer, DBA, or founder transitioning into product management.

• Comfortable reviewing architecture documents and advocating for user needs during trade-off discussions.

• Strong understanding of Postgres or another relational database, with the ability to quickly get up to speed.

• Proficient in interpreting EXPLAIN output and discussing replication, WAL, roles, and extensions.

• Proven experience in delivering products where reliability and trust are fundamental to the user experience.

• Excellent technical and product writing skills.

• Hands-on experience with queries, upgrades, and extensions.

• Familiarity with using AI tools for research, drafting, and synthesizing feedback.

• Ability to work asynchronously by default and make decisions in writing.

• Strong signal: experience with a managed database service.

• Strong signal: experience running Postgres in production, including upgrades, tuning, and incident response.

• Strong signal: experience with database observability, performance tooling, or security and compliance products.

• Strong signal: contributions to Postgres, its extensions, or the broader open-source community.

• Strong signal: experience shipping a product using Supabase.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work opportunity.

• Access to WeWork membership or a co-working allowance that can be utilized globally.

• Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) for all team members.

• Technology allowance for purchasing laptops, monitors, headphones, or other work-related equipment.

• Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees at 100%.

• Health insurance coverage for dependents at 80%.

• Annual company off-site events.

• Flexible working hours with an asynchronous approach.

• Annual education allowance for courses, books, conferences, or other learning opportunities.