Senior Engineering Manager, Postgres

The role

You will lead the team building and operating ClickHouse Managed Postgres. You will combine people leadership, technical direction, product thinking, and operational ownership.

What you will do

• 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.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering
• 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

Nice to have

• Managed PostgreSQL, relational database, or cloud control-plane leadership
• PostgreSQL internals, extensions, replication, storage, performance, or database reliability depth
• AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, or multi-region experience
• Experience taking infrastructure from early adoption through general availability
• Open-source, technical writing, speaking, startup, or founder experience

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employer contributions towards your healthcare
• Equity in the company - stock options
• Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries
• USD$500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee
• Global Gatherings - opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites

About the company

ClickHouse is a globally distributed company that is remote-friendly and operates in over 25 countries.