Engineering Manager - PGD
A Little About Us
Innovative, collaborative minds wanted. The world loves Postgres. We envision a world where organizations thrive by harnessing the full power of Postgres, the world’s fastest growing and most loved and used open source database. Our mission is to enable data teams everywhere to harness the full power of Postgres, whether on premises or in the cloud, with high availability, reliability, scalability, and security.
We’re #1 in Postgres. We aspire to become #1 in Postgres AI. We’ve been major contributors to Postgres since the beginning and we are proud to call thousands of boundary-pushing customers our partners. Proud though we are, we are not resting on our laurels. There’s plenty of work to do. The good news is that everything we do will impact Postgres, which is to say that it will impact the world. No pressure.
EDB empowers organizations to take control of their data. As one of the leading contributors to the vibrant and fast-growing Postgres community, EDB is committed to driving innovation in AI, data and enterprise database technology. Our work is fueled by creative, dedicated people who are committed to help our customers and the community take Postgres everywhere. Join us!
Job Summary
The EDB engineering team is growing. We need skilled, empathetic people to help grow our team, in number, skills & experience. As the Engineering Manager for our Postgres Distributed (PGD) team, you will focus your time on how to help the team be efficient, how to scale systems and processes as the team grows, identifying areas of friction and helping to smooth them over. You will identify skills gaps in the team, and how to address them through training or hiring. You will be the first point of contact for new hires & ensure they integrate into the team effectively.
Candidate Note: This role is 100% Remote. We're looking to hire within EU countries.
What your impact will be:
- People manager and work manager of database internal developers and testers
- Work with Product Management to establish the product roadmaps
- Lead the development team in an Agile environment to deliver the product roadmap
- Collaboratively working with other product development teams on cross product features
- Enforce software testing best practices, automation and performance testing
- Identify & support training to expand the teams experience, in line with demands of the business
- Manage hiring and onboarding new team members
- Performance management of team members
- Bring an inquisitive, innovative & collegiate attitude to problem solving.
What you will bring:
- At least 12 years of experience in Software development
- Experience in managing high performance, technical teams, including career growth of individuals
- Demonstrable track record of running, growing & optimizing small to medium sized teams, of diverse skill sets
- Proven performance management experience
- Be able to advocate for & speak on behalf of the team
- Good written and verbal communication
What will give you an edge:
- Database internal knowledge
- C, Go programming background
Plusses
- Be able to support (but not run) project management activities, scoping, work breakdown, scrum etc.
- Innovative leadership style
- Development experience, worked in a software development team
- Involvement in OSS communities (not just Postgres, though that’s a double plus!)
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We know it takes a unique mix of people and skills to help us in our mission to supercharge Postgres, and we understand that not everyone will check every box. We’d love to hear from you and we want you to apply!
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