Backend Engineer, Neon

API Platform Team

Salary not provided

Plus equity (stock options)

React

Kubernetes

Terraform

Sentry

Grafana

REST API

loki

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Europe, UK

More information about location

Cloud-native serverless Postgres launching system

Posted today

Cloud-native serverless Postgres launching system

101-200 employees

B2BData storageData IntegrationCloud Computing

Posted today

Salary not provided

Plus equity (stock options)

React

Kubernetes

Terraform

Sentry

Grafana

REST API

loki

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Europe, UK

More information about location

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

5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong foundation in building scalable systems
Proven track record designing and evolving public APIs (REST or gRPC) consumed by external developers or IaC tooling (Terraform, etc.)
Strong experience building and maintaining production-grade backend systems and APIs, ideally in Go
Deep understanding of SRE practices (SLO/SLI budgeting, incident response, post‑mortems), yet able to keep the mindset of a feature‑enabling platform team
Experience running services across multiple regions or availability zones
Familiarity with our stack: OpenAPI, Grafana, Loki, Sentry, React (nice‑to‑have), Kubernetes

What the job involves

We are looking for a talented Software Engineer based in Europe to join our new API Platform team.
This team owns Neon's public API and Console service – the foundation every internal product squad builds on – so that developers can create, deploy, and operate features rapidly and with rock‑solid reliability.
By delivering clear API contracts, actionable customer‑level usage insights, and robust deployment pipelines that support multi‑region roll‑outs and zero‑downtime releases, you will help every Neon feature team ship faster while meeting the highest standards for stability, observability, and performance
As a member of this team, you will tackle high‑impact initiatives such as rolling out end‑to‑end tracing, introducing cross‑regional failover, hardening CI/CD workflows, and shaping usage metrics
You will collaborate closely with peer engineering teams to bake platform best practices directly into their workflows
This is a unique opportunity to define the backbone of Neon's developer experience. If you enjoy crafting robust Go backends, enabling fellow engineers to move quickly, and driving reliability at scale – from code to deployment – we'd love to hear from you!
Own the API as a product: design versioning, throttling, and customer‑level usage metrics; ensure backward‑compatibility for clients
Expand reliability: deliver end‑to‑end tracing, structured logs, rich metrics, and proactive error tracking as self‑service building blocks for every feature team
Drive scalability initiatives: guide performance‑ and capacity‑driven architecture work so our platform stays fast, cost‑efficient, and resilient as traffic grows 10x
Collaborate: mentor teammates, facilitate architecture reviews, and co-shape the engineering roadmap

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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