Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Neon
+ Equity
Cloud-native serverless Postgres launching system
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Cloud-native serverless Postgres launching system
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ 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
- Are you an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer eager to lead a high-performing, remote team? Do you thrive on mentoring engineers, optimizing workflows, and driving innovation?
- If you're passionate about building scalable solutions, fostering collaboration, and making a real impact, we want to hear from you!
- Engineering Leadership Experience: 2+ years in an Engineering Management role, plus 5+ years of hands-on coding experience
- Cloud & Platform Expertise: Strong background in leading/building teams that build cloud services or platforms
- Remote Team Management: Proven ability to lead and scale distributed teams across multiple time zones
- Coaching & Communication: Strong mentoring skills, high emotional intelligence, and exceptional prioritization abilities
- Execution & Delivery: Experience planning, shipping, and iterating on complex infrastructure projects with predictability
- Problem-Solving Mindset: Ability to implement tools, processes, and unblock teams to drive continuous improvement
- Cloud: Azure and/or AWS experience
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes (multi-cluster, multi-cloud), Linux environments
- Monitoring: Prometheus ecosystem (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, VictoriaMetrics)
- Scalable & Repeatable Infrastructure: Focus on efficiency and automation
- Debugging & Innovation: Love solving challenges with no easy answers
- Excellent English Communication: Native or near-native verbal and written skills
- Curiosity & Growth: Passion for staying up to date with CS papers, trends, and best practices
Desirable
- Go, GitOps (Flux, ArgoCD), Postgres, Virtualization (QEMU/KVM)
- Contributing to open-source projects
What the job involves
- Lead & Empower: Manage a high-performing distributed team (5+ engineers across the EU), creating a culture of growth, collaboration, and innovation
- Remove Roadblocks: Identify and eliminate obstacles to maximize productivity and efficiency
- Coach & Mentor: Spend significant time helping engineers grow, supporting career development, and evaluating performance
- Optimize & Scale: Work closely with tech leads and product managers to refine processes, tackle tech debt, and ensure fast, high-quality delivery
- Enhance Communication: Foster strong collaboration within the team and across departments
- Drive Strategic Impact: Align infrastructure projects with broader business goals to maximize effectiveness
- Maintain Reliability: Ensure a healthy and scalable on-call process for the team
- Grow the Team: Expand our impact by recruiting and hiring top-tier Software Engineers
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.
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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
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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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