Senior Engineering Manager, Postgres

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India, +3 more countries.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering team.

• Take ownership of outcomes related to provisioning, fleet management, failover, point-in-time recovery, upgrades, observability, performance, and security.

• Transform customer and business requirements into a multi-quarter roadmap with incremental milestones.

• Provide architectural guidance and assist senior engineers in making informed trade-offs.

• Enhance operational quality across SLOs, on-call responsibilities, incident management, maintenance, and automation.

• Collaborate directly with customers to convert recurring challenges into product enhancements.

• Align dependencies, identify risks early, and maintain predictable execution across a distributed organization.

• Recruit talent in PostgreSQL, systems, infrastructure, reliability, and product engineering.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security, Support, and engineering teams across ClickHouse.

• Report directly to Kaushik Iska, who oversees the Managed Postgres organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering.

• 3+ years in a management role overseeing engineers in infrastructure, databases, or developer platforms.

• Proven experience in building and managing a customer-facing stateful service with stringent availability, durability, security, and performance standards.

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL or managed relational databases, including replication, WAL, high availability, recovery, upgrades, observability, or performance diagnostics.

• Technical expertise to engage thoroughly in architecture and incident management without handling daily implementations.

• A successful track record in hiring, mentoring, developing, and retaining engineers, including senior individual contributors.

• Strong decision-making skills in situations of ambiguity, parallel workstreams, risk assessment, and long-term system health.

• Customer-centric approach, strong partnership with Product, effective communication, and leadership in a distributed team environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment; remote-friendly globally distributed company.

• Employer contributions towards healthcare.

• Stock options provided to every new team member.

• Flexible time off in the US.

• Generous time off entitlement in other countries.

• USD$500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.

• Opportunities to connect with colleagues at company-wide offsites.