Team Lead (Compute Team)

Neon is an open-source company on a mission to create a cloud-native Postgres database service for every developer.

We are seeking an experienced technical leader to help us grow our Compute Engineering team. This team works on core PostgreSQL functionality and ensures that it runs smoothly on the Neon cloud platform.

You Will

• Lead a team of talented engineers

• Collaborate closely with other teams across Neon

• Combine technical expertise with project and team management skills

• Be responsible for the overall success of your team

What we're looking for

• 2+ years experience in a technical leadership role

• 5+ years experience as a developer, with experience working on large, complex projects

• Strong mentoring skills, high emotional intelligence, and exceptional prioritization abilities.

• Deep understanding of systems engineering, through experience working on low-level components such as databases, message brokers, operating systems, filesystems, etc.

• Experience working successfully in fully remote or hybrid teams

• Excellent communication in English

Bonus points for experience with

• Contributing to PostgreSQL and/or PostgreSQL extensions

• Open-source projects and developing publicly

• Experience running 24/7 production services (either SaaS or on-prem)

• Development of postgres or similar OLTP database products

• Working as an Engineering Manager with people management responsibility.

About Neon

Neon is building open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL. Our architecture separates storage from compute, allowing for stateless and serverless Postgres. We’re a well funded startup with deep knowledge of Postgres internals and decades of experience building databases. We are a systems company; we work on low-level code with strict performance and correctness requirements.

Neon was created by a team of Postgres hackers, and led by CEO Nikita Shamgunov (co-founder of SingleStore). Neon is built on open-source principles and is focused on giving back to the Postgres and developer communities.

Our Team

• We are a distributed team of 130+ people working from 25+ countries (concentrating around North America and Europe time zones)

• We are a team built on open sources cultural principles (transparency, contribution, accountability, proactivity)

• Team with decades of experience building databases and deep knowledge of Postgres internals. We are deeply technical

• We have experienced Postgres committers and hackers on the team (check Heikki, Anastasia, Matthias profiles)

• We believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source

• We aim for a diversity of thoughts and backgrounds

• We are keen to be a fast-moving flat org and avoid hierarchical structures

Our Investors

• Top-tier investors backed up Neon's vision:

  • We raised $104+ million in funding from Menlo Ventures, Notable Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund.

  • Venture vehicles of Snowflake and Databricks invested in Neon.

  • Our angel investors are prominent technologists and ecosystem players. More than 20 awesome angels supported Neon, including Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, Mike Ovitz, Ajeet Singh, Guillermo Rauch, Søren Brammer Schmidt, and Wes McKinney.

  • Our Board includes Quentin Clark, Glenn Solomon, Joe Morrissey, and Tim Tully.

Our Offer

• You have an opportunity to be an early employee in the fast-scaling ambitious team

• You can work 100% remote: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home

• We grant equity (stock options) for all full-time hires

• We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, and much more)

• We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Lisbon)