Senior Engineering Manager, Postgres

ClickHouse

. Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing engineering team .

Posted 10/30/2026full-timeRemote • India, France, United Kingdom, GermanySeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading engineering teams, managing infrastructure and database projects, and driving product improvements through customer engagement. Proficient in PostgreSQL and operational excellence across system reliability, performance, and security.

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PostgreSQL ManagementInfrastructure EngineeringTeam LeadershipCustomer-Facing Service DevelopmentOperational Quality Improvement

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringDatabase ManagementPerformance DiagnosisObservabilityHigh AvailabilityFailover ManagementPoint-In-Time RecoveryAutomationSystem ReliabilitySecurity

Soft Skills

CoachingClear CommunicationExecution JudgmentCustomer MindsetDistributed-Team Leadership

Industry Keywords

SLOsFleet ManagementIncident ManagementProduct PartnershipRisk Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Postgres

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing engineering team
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 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 PostgreSQL, systems, infrastructure, reliability, and product engineering talent
Partner with Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security, Support, and engineering teams across ClickHouse
Report directly to Kaushik Iska, who leads the Managed Postgres organization

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Record of hiring, coaching, developing, and retaining engineers, including senior individual contributors
Strong execution judgment across ambiguity, parallel workstreams, risk, and long-term system health
Customer mindset, strong Product partnership, clear communication, and distributed-team leadership

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work environment; remote-friendly globally distributed company
Employer contributions towards healthcare
Stock options for every new team member
Flexible time off in the US
Generous time off entitlement in other countries
USD$500 home office setup allowance for remote employees
Opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites