Technical Program Manager, Neon
+ Equity
Cloud-native serverless Postgres launching system
Job no longer available
Cloud-native serverless Postgres launching system
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To take everything that developers love about Postgres — reliability, performance, extensibility — and deliver it as a serverless product that helps teams confidently ship reliable and scalable applications faster than ever before
Role
Who you are
- Is proactive and autonomous, identifying on changes that need to be made, sharing their plan for feedback and implementing
- Is flexible as situations and requirements come into focus, revealing the unexpected or change
- Ambitious to personally empower and accelerate others
- Is comfortable making, flagging and enabling difficult prioritisation decisions for themselves and others - including what to focus on, and when to let things go
- Has high Emotional Intelligence, and makes context-aware choices around communications, timing, and public vs private communication
- Is comfortable with ambiguity, and has various approaches to reducing it
- Has a technical background, which they use to understand underlying work and inform their approach
- Is comfortable identifying when their technical background is insufficient, transparent and self-motivated to learn more so that their work can succeed
- Is comfortable writing scripts and building tooling to automate routine tasks
- Adapts existing process, making the cost of process minimal while increasing the value from it
- Understands the cost of process and tool change, and can apply those changes incrementally, adapting based on feedback
- Is flexible on tools, process,es and approach based on changing company needs
- This candidate must be comfortable working solo and develop the tools and systems to scale their impact rather than scaling by hiring
What the job involves
- This is our first TPM role at the company, so the person we hire will have an enormous opportunity to inform and develop our processes, tools, and approach as the company scales and develops
- This TPM will handle both long-term, company-scale initiatives as well as shorter-term project management for a small number of top-priority multi-team projects
- Planning: Building and coordinating effective, lightweight, and transparent planning processes that support our ability to deliver and understand capacity in the future
- Oversight and Correction: Building tools and processes which identify efforts which are on or off-track, proactively taking action to resolve internally and escalating when necessary (Metrics, reporting, documentation)
- Coordination, Facilitation, Reporting: Identifying necessary parties for efforts, and supporting their work through coordination and communication (eg. RACI)
- Standards and Consistency: Developing standards with our teams, and gently rolling them out while seeking feedback and confirming their effects
- Stakeholder Management: Across internal functions, and with external parties
Our take
Modern data storage systems for web, mobile, geospatial and analytics applications are commonly based on PostgreSQL, an open-source relational database management system. Whilst its open-source nature yields many benefits, the system was developed over 25 years ago and thus is not optimized for modern multi-cloud infrastructures.
Neon provides a cloud-native serverless PostgreSQL launching system, separating storage and computing requirements to facilitate unlimited storage, branching, and autoscaling. The system's flexibility comes from automatic computing activation and shutdown to save resources on inactivity, ultimately adapting each database to its real-time processing requirements.
Whilst standard PostgreSQL databases are certainly more documented and prevalent, Neon has shown great potential to innovate upon it through its focus on multi-cloud infrastructure and flexible scalability. The company also stands out by providing early access to users for free, providing them with 3 projects, up to 10GB storage, and computing capabilities of up to 1 vCPU per 256MB. Its work in the sector has led to substantial funding in 2023, which is being used to elevate its R&D in the AI space, as well as plans to double its workforce.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2024
$25m
SERIES B
Aug 2023
$46m
SERIES B
Total funding: $125m
Company benefits
- 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 pay top of the market in most parts of the world
- 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, med insurance, and much more)
- We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Mexico)
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Nikita Shamgunov
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Founder, CEO, and CTO of MemSQL from 2011 to 2020. CSO for SingleStore from 2020 to 2022.
Heikki Linnakangas
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Neon in 2021.
Stas Kelvich
(Co-Founder)Experience as Co-founder of Mimimir from 2011 to 2013. Software Engineer for Postgres Professional from 2015 to 2020 and for Yandex from 2020 to 2021.
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