Postgres Platform Engineering Manager

ClickHouse; Greater London; Remote; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote-friendly work

Healthcare contributions

Equity in the company

Flexible time off

Home office setup USD$500

Global company gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Managed Postgres Team to lead the team that builds and operates the ClickHouse Managed Postgres service. You will blend people leadership, technical direction, product thinking, and operational ownership to deliver a reliable PostgreSQL experience within ClickHouse Cloud.

You will partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security, Support and engineering teams, hire and mentor engineers, and drive multi-quarter roadmaps with a focus on

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years managing engineers in infrastructure, databases, or developer platforms.
• Experience building and operating a customer-facing stateful service with demanding availability, durability, security, and performance requirements.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL or managed relational databases, including replication, WAL, high availability, recovery, upgrades, observability, or performance diagnosis.
• Technical credibility to engage deeply in architecture and incidents without owning daily implementation.
• A record of hiring, coaching, developing, and retaining engineers, including senior ICs.
• Strong execution judgment across ambiguity, parallel workstreams, risk, and long-term system health.
• A customer mindset, strong Product partnership, clear communication, and distributed-team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team through clear expectations, feedback, development, and direct performance management.
• Own outcomes across provisioning, fleet management, failover, point-in-time recovery, upgrades, observability, performance, and security.
• Turn customer and business needs into a multi-quarter roadmap with incremental milestones.
• Guide architecture and help senior engineers make explicit, sound tradeoffs.
• Raise operational quality across SLOs, on-call, incidents, maintenance, and automation.
• Work directly with customers and turn recurring pain into product improvements.
• Align dependencies, surface risks early, and keep execution predictable across a distributed organization.
• Hire the right mix of PostgreSQL, systems, infrastructure, reliability, and product engineering talent while fostering ownership and clear technical debate.

Skills

Software engineering

People management

PostgreSQL knowledge

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Job description

ClickHouse is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Managed Postgres Team to lead the team that builds and operates the ClickHouse Managed Postgres service. You will blend people leadership, technical direction, product thinking, and operational ownership to deliver a reliable PostgreSQL experience within ClickHouse Cloud.

You will partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security, Support and engineering teams, hire and mentor engineers, and drive multi-quarter roadmaps with a focus on