Neon is a distributed team building an open-source cloud-native Postgres. We're a well-funded startup with deep knowledge of Postgres internals and decades of experience building databases. Our storage layer is written in Rust, cloud control plane is written in Go. We're on a mission to create a cloud-native database service for every developer.

We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer who will contribute to the development of our Console app. In this position you will work on user-facing features and Product app.

You will:

• Work on the backend for Neon Cloud applications
• Join an experienced Golang team and contribute to the development of new features for the product
• Own feature end-to-end from participating in the design process to iterating based on user feedback after it has been shipped
• Keep the bar high for the code quality and internal devX
• Participate in the on-call rotation
• Have an opportunity to lead a small team if you have managerial experience
• You will not be focused on infra (you will be focused on product)

We’re looking for someone who has

• 3+ years of experience developing backend Golang apps
• Exposure to Infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes, Dockers, Github CI/CD, cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Experience with Python (for tests) and Typescript experience is beneficial

About Neon

Our team

• We are a distributed team of 60 people working from 22 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:
  • We raised $104 million in funding from Menlo Ventures, GGV, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund.
  • Venture vehicles of Snowflake and Databricks invested in Neon.
  • Our angels investors are prominent technologists, and ecosystem players. More than 20 awesome angels supported Neon, including Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, Mike Ovitz, Ajeet Singh, Guillermo Rauch, Søren Brammer Schmidt, and Wes McKinney.
  • Our Board includes Quentin Clark, Glenn Solomon, Joe Morrissey, and Tim Tully.

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 pay top of the market in most parts of the world
• We grant equity (stock options) for all full-time hires
• We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, and much more)
• We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Cyprus)