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Engineering Manager, Postgres

Render · Remote: United States · Remote

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About Render

Deploy and scale any app or agent from your first user to your billionth. Build faster on intuitive cloud infrastructure for the modern web. Backed by Bessemer, General Catalyst and AI Grant.

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.

What they'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
More about this role

At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure.

Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users.

Our platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $260M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development.

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