Engineering Manager, Postgres

Render; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Health insurance

401(k)

Dental & vision coverage

Wellness stipend

Commuter benefits

Home office stipend

Learning & development

Job summary

Render is seeking an Engineering Manager for Postgres who will lead a talented team building and maintaining the Render Postgres product. You will partner with product managers and designers to translate user needs into a scalable system that hundreds of thousands of developers rely on.

The role requires strong engineering background, ownership, and a passion for building developer-friendly products. You will drive technical direction and mentor engineers while delivering meaningful, rapid

Qualifications

• 8+ years as an engineer shipping products or features with business impact.
• 2+ years of people management experience, including mentoring and performance management.
• Strong ability to engage in system design, architecture, and tradeoffs.
• Product-oriented mindset translating business goals into roadmaps and features.
• Ability to balance urgency with thoughtful, high-quality execution.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across eng, product, and design.
• Experience building developer platforms, cloud infra, or distributed systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of Postgres engineers with mentorship and clear guidance.
• Drive execution on product initiatives from ideation to launch with reliability and quality.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Infra to translate user needs into technical roadmaps.
• Guide system design decisions and manage architectural tradeoffs.
• Foster ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across the team.

Skills

Engineering leadership

System design

Product mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership

Communication

Job description

Applying to Render

We're seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team. We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed. Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager for Postgres, you will lead a group of talented engineers building and maintaining the Render Postgres product. This role blends strong technical leadership with product thinking: you’ll partner closely with product managers and designers to translate user needs into a high-quality, scalable system, that hundreds of thousands of developers rely on every day. You’ll be responsible for guiding technical direction, developing engineers, and ensuring the team ships meaningful improvements quickly while maintaining the high standards that define Render’s platform. The ideal candidate brings a strong engineering background, a deep sense of ownership, experience building stateful services, and a passion for building products that developers love.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow a team of postgres engineers, supporting their development through mentorship, feedback, and clear technical guidance.
• Drive execution on key product initiatives from ideation through launch, balancing speed with high standards of reliability and quality.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Infra teams to translate customer needs into thoughtful technical solutions and product roadmaps.
• Engage deeply in technical discussions, guiding system design decisions and helping the team navigate architectural tradeoffs.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across engineering practices and team processes.
• Help the team break down complex problems into incremental milestones that deliver value quickly while supporting long‑term platform evolution.
• Ensure teams maintain a strong understanding of the developer experience and customer impact of the features they build.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner closely with product management, customers, and internal teams to understand needs, align priorities, and ensure delivery of impactful features and solutions.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years as an Engineer shipping products and/or features that have downstream impact on the business and product ecosystem. Ideally, experience with building stateful services.
• 2+ years of experience managing people and developing engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management.
• Strong technical background with the ability to engage deeply in system design, architecture, and engineering tradeoffs.
• Product-oriented mindset with experience translating business goals and user needs into engineering roadmaps and shipped features.
• Ability to balance urgency with thoughtful execution, helping teams ship quickly while maintaining high quality.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and design.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability for both team outcomes and long‑term system health.
• Nice-to-haves:Experience building products for developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or DevTools.Background working on highly scalable distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.Experience improving engineering velocity through tooling, processes, and team practices.Experience building products used directly by developers or technical users.A track record of successful collaboration with product, marketing, and customer support teams to drive adoption and retention.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.
• Long‑term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer‑paid medical coverage and 99% employer‑paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.
• FSAs and HSAs are available as well.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.
• This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.
• Render is an equal‑opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy‑related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.
• We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.