Senior Engineering Manager, Postgres
clickhouse · Posted Oct 5
High-performance, column-oriented open-source database and real-time analytics platform
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About the role
The Managed Postgres team is building a high-performance, reliable PostgreSQL service within ClickHouse Cloud, giving developers a familiar PostgreSQL experience while connecting transactional Postgres workloads with real-time analytics in ClickHouse. The team owns provisioning, high availability, backup and recovery, upgrades, observability, performance, security, and developer experience. This role is an Engineering Manager position leading the team building and operating ClickHouse Managed Postgres, combining people leadership, technical direction, product thinking, and operational ownership, and reporting to Kaushik Iska.
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 while fostering ownership and clear technical debate.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 8+ years in software engineering, including 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.
Preferred qualifications
- 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 and support
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.
- Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
- Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
- Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
- A USD$500 Home office setup if you're a remote employee.
- Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
About clickhouse
ClickHouse is a high-performance, column-oriented open-source database management system for online analytical processing (OLAP). It enables businesses and developers to generate real-time analytical reports and process massive volumes of structured data with extreme speed. The company provides both self-managed deployments and fully managed cloud infrastructure tailored for modern data-intensive and AI-driven applications.
- Industry
- Database
- Company size
- 500-1000 employees
- Founded
- 2021
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Series D
Funding
Series D · $1.05B raised
- 2021-09-01Series A$50M
- 2021-10-28Series B$250M
- 2025-05-29Series C$350M
- 2026-01-16Series D$400M
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
Co-Founder & President
Jimmy Sexton
Chief Financial Officer
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