Software Engineer, Neon

Autoscaling

Salary not provided

+ Stock Options

Kubernetes

Linux

Terraform

C++

Rust

Grafana

Mid and Senior level

Remote from UK

Cloud-native serverless Postgres launching system

Be an early applicant

Cloud-native serverless Postgres launching system

101-200 employees

B2BData storageData IntegrationCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

+ Stock Options

Kubernetes

Linux

Terraform

C++

Rust

Grafana

Mid and Senior level

Remote from UK

101-200 employees

B2BData storageData IntegrationCloud Computing

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

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

It requires deep knowledge of Linux concepts and systems
At least 4 years of production experience in Software engineering
Practical experience with go, Rust, or C++ programming language (2+ years)
Experience using Kubernetes, QEMU, Github. Experience with Grafana, and Terraform is a plus
Passion for building systems software. Performance engineering and distributed systems are topics that excite you!
Experience with open-source projects and developing publicly is a plus
Passion for joining a fast-paced, early-stage startup
Track record of identifying problems, implementing solutions, and delivering complex projects in distributed systems or databases
Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and pride

Desirable

Some background in databases or building core components for data processing systems (including query execution, storage engines, autotuning and workload optimization) and distributed systems
Extensive experience with low-level backend programming languages (C, C++, etc.)
Experience with low level Linux concepts, kernel programming and memory management on Linux would be a plus

What the job involves

The Autoscaling Team is responsible for the compute infrastructure used for running Neon databases
Our work ranges from scheduling compute loads in a large cluster, providing a secure and flexible runtime infrastructure for the database processes to adapting the database containers to the requirements of the varying compute load
Join an experienced team and contribute to Neon compute infrastructure
Participate in the design and implementation of compute infrastructure to provide a flexible and scalable yet secure system
Expand our footprint by interviewing and hiring great software engineers
Drive excellence through the team and implement the world's best practices
Participate in on-call rotation

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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