Job Description

Neon is an open-source company on a mission to enable developers to ship faster on a serverless platform (which is powered by Postgres at the bottom of its stack).

Are you an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer eager to lead a high-performing, remote team? Do you thrive on mentoring engineers, optimizing workflows, and driving innovation? If you're passionate about building scalable solutions, fostering collaboration, and making a real impact, we want to hear from you!

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead & Empower: Manage a high-performing distributed team (5+ engineers across the EU), creating a culture of growth, collaboration, and innovation.

• Remove Roadblocks: Identify and eliminate obstacles to maximize productivity and efficiency.

• Coach & Mentor: Spend significant time helping engineers grow, supporting career development, and evaluating performance.

• Optimize & Scale: Work closely with tech leads and product managers to refine processes, tackle tech debt, and ensure fast, high-quality delivery.

• Enhance Communication: Foster strong collaboration within the team and across departments.

• Drive Strategic Impact: Align infrastructure projects with broader business goals to maximize effectiveness.

• Maintain Reliability: Ensure a healthy and scalable on-call process for the team.

• Grow the Team: Expand our impact by recruiting and hiring top-tier Software Engineers.

What We're Looking For

• Engineering Leadership Experience: 2+ years in an Engineering Management role, plus 5+ years of hands-on coding experience.

• Cloud & Platform Expertise: Strong background in leading/building teams that build cloud services or platforms.

• Remote Team Management: Proven ability to lead and scale distributed teams across multiple time zones.

• Coaching & Communication: Strong mentoring skills, high emotional intelligence, and exceptional prioritization abilities.

• Execution & Delivery: Experience planning, shipping, and iterating on complex infrastructure projects with predictability.

• Problem-Solving Mindset: Ability to implement tools, processes, and unblock teams to drive continuous improvement.

• Technical Fluency:

• Excellent English Communication: Native or near-native verbal and written skills.

• Curiosity & Growth: Passion for staying up to date with CS papers, trends, and best practices.

Bonus Points for Experience With

• Go, GitOps (Flux, ArgoCD), Postgres, Virtualization (QEMU/KVM)

• Contributing to open-source projects

Why Join Us?

Impact: Work on critical infrastructure projects that power our platform.

Growth: Lead a talented team and shape the future of our engineering culture. Flexibility: Fully remote with a distributed team across the EU.

Innovation: Be at the forefront of cloud technologies and DevOps best practices.

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 120+ 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 have experienced Postgres committers and hackers on the team (check  Heikki ,  Anastasia ,  Arseny ,  Matthias profiles)

• 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:

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) to all full-time hires

• We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, private medical insurance, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, and much more)

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

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