Engineering Manager, DevEx PostgreSQL

We’re a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone. 

The Role:

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to build and lead our PostgreSQL Developer Experience team. This team’s mission is bold and clear: Make building modern apps effortless, backed by the world’s most resilient Postgres database.

You will guide a team of engineers in building workflows, integrations, and tools that remove friction from application development—making PostgreSQL not just reliable and scalable, but also a joy to use. Your leadership will directly shape how developers interact with databases in modern app development, from prototyping to production at scale.

Whether you’re a manager with a strong technical core, or a staff engineer looking to dive deeper into people leadership, we want to hear about the products you've shipped, the impact they had, and what you learned along the way.

What You'll Do:

• Lead with Impact: Foster a culture of speed and agility — balancing quality with a bias for action and continuous learning.
• Drive Impactful Delivery: Be accountable for the team’s output and outcomes — ensuring deliveries are not just on time, but make a real difference in developer adoption and usability.
• Experiment & Iterate: Foster a culture of experimentation, where quick changes and developer feedback loops guide the team’s priorities.
• Shape the Strategy: Partner with product management to define and deliver the roadmap, bringing engineering insights and developer empathy into the vision.
• Build Developer-Centric Tools: Oversee the creation of user experience, APIs, integrations to the broader developer ecosystem, and workflows that reduce friction and accelerate app development.
• Champion Developer Efficiency - Ensure teams operate at peak effectiveness by removing friction, minimizing waste, and optimizing processes for consistent high performance.
• Grow the Team: Hire, mentor, and develop engineers who thrive in fast-moving, outcome-driven environments.
• Keep Developer Empathy at the Core: Stay close to developers through feedback loops, research, and hands-on usage of our tools.

What We’re Looking For: 

• 2+ years experience in a leadership position
• 5+ years of experience as a software developer
• A bias for action — you move quickly from idea to experiment to delivery, avoiding excessive planning or analysis paralysis.
• Passion for developer experience—understanding the challenges developers face and turning them into elegant solutions.
• Comfort with fast, iterative delivery cycles — you default to experimentation over excessive planning and analysis.
• Understanding of what it takes to build high performing teams and to retain talent.
• A good understanding of database systems - knowledge on PostgreSQL is a big plus.

Amazing! What’s next:

If you think Aiven is the place for you and that our Values align with yours, send us your resume and we’ll get in touch!

Global Benefits:

Our global benefits are designed to help you thrive and grow, personally and professionally:

• Participate in Aiven’s equity plan.
• Balance work and life with our hybrid work policy.
• Choose the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.
• Use your Professional Development Plan budget for learning opportunities.
• Receive holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.
• Inquire about our Global Time Off Commitment (Parental and Sick Leave, as well as Personal Time)
• Enjoy country-specific benefits for our global cast.

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