Team Lead (Storage Team)

Neon; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a fast-scaling startup that is revolutionizing cloud-native PostgreSQL. As a leader on the storage engineering team, you will tackle exciting challenges in building high-performance systems. This role offers the chance to work remotely, lead a talented team, and contribute to innovative database solutions. With a strong focus on open-source principles and a commitment to diversity, you'll be part of a collaborative culture that values transparency and accountability. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Equity (stock options)

Unlimited vacations

Paid parental leave

Top-notch equipment

Regular offsite events

Qualifications

• 2+ years in a technical leadership role and 5+ years as a developer.
• Expert knowledge in systems programming languages like C++ or Rust.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of talented engineers and ensure overall success.
• Combine technical expertise with project and team management skills.

Skills

C++

Rust

Technical Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Emotional Intelligence

Prioritization

Job description

Neon’s storage engineering team builds the foundational data services for our serverless PostgreSQL platform. Running 24/7 in locations around the globe, with over a million databases under management, these systems present exciting challenges in scale and efficiency.

With unique features such as a fine-grained history of database transactions and a git-like CoW branching capability, working on Neon storage is a unique opportunity for a leader who thrives on building high performance systems at scale.

You Will:

• Lead a team of talented engineers

• Combine technical expertise with project and team management skills

• Be responsible for the overall success of the team

What we’re looking for:

• 2+ years experience in a technical leadership role

• 5+ years experience as a developer, with expert knowledge of a systems programming language such as C++ or Rust.

• Strong mentoring skills, high emotional intelligence, and exceptional prioritization abilities.

• Experience building complex systems where correctness and performance are essential, such as databases, message brokers, operating systems, filesystems, etc.

• Experience running 24/7 production services (either SaaS or on-prem)

• Experience working successfully in fully remote or hybrid teams

• Excellent communication in English

Bonus points for experience with:

• Development of postgres or similar OLTP database products

• Working as an Engineering Manager with people management responsibility.

About Neon

Neon is building open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL. Our architecture separates storage from compute, allowing for stateless and serverless Postgres. We’re a well funded startup with deep knowledge of Postgres internals and decades of experience building databases. We are a systems company; we work on low-level code with strict performance and correctness requirements.

Neon was created by a team of Postgres hackers, and led by CEO Nikita Shamgunov (co-founder of SingleStore). Neon is built on open-source principles and is focused on giving back to the Postgres and developer communities.

Our Team

• We are a distributed team of 130+ people working from 25+ countries (concentrating around North America and Europe time zones)

• We are a team built on open sources cultural principles (transparency, contribution, accountability, proactivity)

• Team with decades of experience building databases and deep knowledge of Postgres internals. We are deeply technical

• We believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source

• We aim for a diversity of thoughts and backgrounds

• We are keen to be a fast-moving flat org and avoid hierarchical structures

Our Investors

• Top-tier investors backed up Neon's vision:

  • We raised $104+ million in funding from Menlo Ventures, Notable Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund.

  • Venture vehicles of Snowflake and Databricks invested in Neon.

  • Our angel investors are prominent technologists and ecosystem players. More than 20 awesome angels supported Neon, including Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, Mike Ovitz, Ajeet Singh, Guillermo Rauch, Søren Brammer Schmidt, and Wes McKinney.

  • Our Board includes Quentin Clark, Glenn Solomon, Joe Morrissey, and Tim Tully.

Our Offer

• 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 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, and much more)

• We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Lisbon)