Senior Engineering Manager, Tiger Data
Tiger Cloud Apps
Building the new standard for data infrastructure, built on PostgreSQL, designed for the future
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Building the new standard for data infrastructure, built on PostgreSQL, designed for the future
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
TigerData is the fastest PostgreSQL platform for real-time, analytical, and agentic applications.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineers or engineering teams
- A track record of building and leading high-performing full-stack teams that ship customer-facing products
- Strong technical depth with hands-on experience in JavaScript and modern frontend, plus Go (or comparable backend) services
- Experience owning complex, customer-facing domains end to end — ideally including billing, observability, user/account management, or developer-experience tooling
- A proven ability to set culture, standards, and direction during periods of growth or reorganization, and to push a team to execute
- Strong product sense and the judgment to balance polish, velocity, and reliability
- Passion for building experiences developers love, and for developing the people who build them
- Bonus: experience with CLIs, MCP, or building tooling for technical/developer audiences
- Our Tech Stack:
- We don't require previous experience with our tech stack, but enthusiasm for learning is key. Our technologies include PostgreSQL, Tiger Cloud, AWS, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, and innovative features like Hypertables, Hypercore, vector search, and real-time analytics
What the job involves
- We're looking for an exceptional engineering leader to build and grow the team behind Console — the primary interface our customers use to work with the Tiger platform, the Tiger CLI and the MCP
- This is a high-ownership leadership role on a team that is establishing new ways of working, reorganizing, and pushing hard to execute on product
- You'll lead a group of full-stack engineers working predominantly in JavaScript and Go, owning the surfaces and services that push the Console to the next level
- We're looking for a leader who can set technical and organizational direction, raise the bar for quality, and shape a strong engineering culture as the team grows
- Staying close enough to the technology to make sound architectural and prioritization calls is essential
- This is a remote and full-time position
- Lead, grow, and mentor a team of engineers, owning hiring, performance management, career development, and team health
- Own the Console end to end — the UI customers use to operate the platform, including observability, user management, and developer-experience features such as chunk-size optimization and other cloud-only capabilities
- Own the strategy and delivery of developer tooling alongside the Console, including the Tiger CLI and MCP integrations
- Own billing end to end, from the underlying services through the customer-facing experience
- Set technical direction across a predominantly JavaScript and Go stack, balancing speed of delivery, polish, and long-term maintainability
- Establish engineering practices, conventions, and culture for a team that is actively reorganizing and ramping up execution, and help drive the broader organizational change
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and other engineering leaders to turn a roadmap into shipped, polished features
- Be an enthusiastic and personable leader who isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and write code
Application process
- We respond to every applicant
- We review applications fairly and objectively, and shortlist based on relevant skills and experience
- We ensure clear and timely communication throughout your candidate journey
- We maintain a rigorous interview process with a high bar, designed to give you the opportunity to meet various team members you'll collaborate with across our organization
Our take
Timescale helps developers and businesses manage and analyze big data sets that power large-scale operations. It offers this through its own open-source time-series SQL database which, unlike many competitors, is built with PostgreSQL.
The product’s broad client applications include finance, logistics, and space. It serves hundreds of customers, with tens of thousands of other organizations using the TimescaleDB platform in the community (including companies like IBM, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Samsung, among others.)
Timescale has also landed substantial funding, becoming a Unicorn back in 2022. This all signifies the value that Timescale's platform provides. The company continues to grow, investing across product, engineering, and R&D, as well as broadening its efforts in serving the Timescale community.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2022
$110m
SERIES C
May 2021
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $184.8m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO & family leave
- Professional development & educational benefits
- Summer Fridays off in August
- Fully remote work from anywhere
- Stock options
- Monthly WiFi stipend
- FSA/Dependent FSA plans
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Premium insurance options for you and your family
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Ajay Kulkarni
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previous CEO and Co-Founder of computer software company Sensobi, and worked in product at GroupMe/Skyprosoft.
Michael Freedman
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previous Research Assistant at multiple universities, including Berkeley and Stanford University. Co-founded Illuminics Systems, which was later acquired by Neustar. Current Advisor to Blockstack and Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.
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