Description:

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer

The SRE team is responsible for managing Neon’s multi-region, multi-cloud deployment in close collaboration with the broader engineering team, as well as improving the reliability of the overall platform. All the features we want to implement can only reach our customers if the changes are delivered in a reliable way, which means the SRE team plays a significant role in defining our pace of development.

Successful candidates will get the opportunity to contribute to the effort of evolving Neon to become multi-cloud so that we can be as close as possible to our customers while also making decisions about how to best utilize different cloud technologies. They will also take part in refining and improving our existing infrastructure so that stability and scalability complement the delivery of new features and services.

You will

• Join an experienced team and contribute to the foundation all of Neon is built upon
• Contribute to building a stable and cost-efficient infrastructure foundation
• Play a key role in ensuring we are proactive instead of reactive on infrastructure and reliability
• Coach your fellow engineers on cloud, infrastructure, and reliability topics
• Be ready to join an on-call rotation

We’re looking for someone who has

• 4+ years experience working in Site Reliability Engineering
• Experience with cloud infrastructure components in Azure and/or AWS
• Experience in a complex Linux infrastructure environment
• Experience focusing on building repeatable and cost-efficient infrastructure
• Experience building solutions for problems with no answers on Google
• Experience working with monitoring solutions in the Prometheus ecosystem; Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Victoria Metrics
• Experience managing multi-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes deployments
• Nice to have: Familiarity with Go, GitOps (e.g., Flux, ArgoCD), Postgres, Virtualization (QEMU/KVM)

Our stack: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Grafana Cloud, Victoria Metrics, Flux, EKS/AKS.

About Neon

Neon is building open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL. Our architecture separates storage from compute, allowing for stateless and serverless Postgres. We’re a well-funded startup with deep knowledge of Postgres internals and decades of experience building databases. We are a systems company; we work on low-level code with strict performance and correctness requirements.

Neon was created by a team of Postgres hackers and led by CEO Nikita Shamgunov (co-founder of SingleStore). Neon is built on open-source principles and is focused on giving back to the Postgres and developer communities.

Our Team

• We are a distributed team of 100+ people working from 25+ countries (concentrating around North American and European time zones)
• We are a team built on open-source cultural principles (transparency, contribution, accountability, and 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