Software Engineer, Neon

Storage

Salary not provided

+ Equity (stock options)

Postgres

C++

Rust

Mid and Senior level

Remote in US

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

+ Equity (stock options)

Postgres

C++

Rust

Mid and Senior level

Remote in US

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

At least 4 years of production experience as a software engineer
Experience building high-scale systems where correctness is critical
Experience with maintaining and developing large codebases
Passion for building systems software. Performance engineering and distributed systems are topics that excite you!
Passion for joining a fast-paced, early-stage startup
Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and pride

Desirable

Experience with Rust or modern C++ with an interest in learning Rust
Experience with open-source projects and developing publicly

What the job involves

We are seeking a skilled Systems Software Engineer to join our Storage Engineering team. You will work on the Neon storage services, written in Rust:
Scaling our services to support millions of databases, each of which can grow to terabytes in size
Optimizing throughput and latency for PostgreSQL clients
Operating a global fleet of storage servers at a high level of reliability
For example, recent projects in our team included:
Implementing scale-out sharding of our storage for higher capacity
A fast vectored read path for coalescing reads of adjacent blocks
A joint consensus mechanism for reconfiguring Paxos replication groups
Participate in the design and implementation of features
Drive continuous improvement in code quality and robustness
Write highly efficient systems code with a focus on testability & correctness
Participate in on-call rotation and drive operational excellence

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

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

97% employee growth in 12 months

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

Articles

Neon delivers a serverless PostgreSQL

Neon nabs $30M to build a scalable cloud service for Postgres databases

Neon Raises $30M for Its Postgres as a Service

Neon Raises $46M in Series B Funding

Neon, a relational database startup, lands $46M investment

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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