Role overview

Postgres Product Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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What You'll Do

  • Operate and maintain the Render Postgres fleet.
  • Collaborate closely with design, product, other engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Help evolve and mature the Render Postgres product as it scales and increases in complexity over time.
  • Participate in team planning, roadmapping, and goal-setting.
  • Help shape team culture and practices as the company scales.
  • Help evolve the Postgres product with new capabilities.
  • Participate in on-call responsibilities with the rest of your team.

What We're Looking For

  • 6+ years of professional experience shipping software. Bonus points if you’ve excelled at a small, high-growth startup.
  • Experience collaborating with product and design stakeholders.
  • Strong sense of ownership and ability to make pragmatic decisions about your work.
  • Comfort with working in a distributed system.
  • Experience operating Postgres at scale.
  • Familiarity with modern tooling for software build and deploy processes.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience wearing multiple hats and working across the stack, both collaboratively and independently.
  • Strong understanding of web frameworks, APIs, and databases, and experience working with multiple programming languages.
  • Familiarity building for product-driven growth and modern enterprise audiences.
  • Experience with any of the technologies the Render product runs on: Go, Typescript, React, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, Temporal.

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.
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