Team Lead (Compute Team)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not specified

Neon is an open-source company building a cloud-native Postgres database service. They are seeking an experienced technical leader to grow their Compute Engineering team, responsible for core PostgreSQL functionality on the Neon cloud platform. This role involves leading a team, collaborating with other teams, and ensuring the overall success of the team.

Requirements

• Experience: 2+ years in a technical leadership role
• Development Experience: 5+ years as a developer, with experience in large, complex projects
• Mentoring Skills: Strong mentoring skills and high emotional intelligence
• Prioritization Abilities: Exceptional prioritization abilities
• Systems Engineering Understanding: Deep understanding of systems engineering, including experience with databases, message brokers, operating systems, filesystems, etc.
• Remote Team Experience: Experience working successfully in fully remote or hybrid teams
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills in English

Responsibilities

• 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.

Bonus Points

• Experience contributing to PostgreSQL and/or PostgreSQL extensions.
• Experience with 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.
• Experience working as an Engineering Manager with people management responsibility.

About Neon

Neon is building open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL. Their architecture separates storage from compute, allowing for stateless and serverless Postgres. They are a well-funded startup with deep knowledge of Postgres internals and decades of experience building databases. Neon was created by a team of Postgres hackers, led by CEO Nikita Shamgunov (co-founder of SingleStore). Neon is built on open-source principles and focused on giving back to the Postgres and developer communities.

Team Information

• Team Size: 130+ people working from 25+ countries (primarily North America and Europe time zones).
• Team Culture: Distributed team with open-source cultural principles (transparency, contribution, accountability, proactivity).
• Technical Expertise: Team with decades of experience building databases and deep knowledge of Postgres internals. Experienced Postgres committers and hackers on the team.
• Investors: Top-tier investors: Menlo Ventures, Notable Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund. Venture vehicles of Snowflake and Databricks invested in Neon. Prominent technologists and ecosystem players are angel investors.