Neon is an open-source company on a mission to enable developers to ship faster on a serverless platform (which is powered by Postgres at the bottom of its stack).
As we've grown our serverless Postgres offering, we're now looking to expand it with more functionalities at the application development layer. We're looking for an experienced software engineer who is interested in contributing to these efforts.
You will:
Build innovative features that help developers ship faster
Work with the talented Neon team across executives, developers, product managers, and more to chart the future of what Neon can do for developers
Work directly with engineers in partner companies on integrations with Neon
Ship and iterate quickly on a number of different parts of our stack (CLI, UI, APIs)
Work with on the next generation of tools for AI to ship new tools for AI agents
Required experience:
You've built a fair number of apps in different tech stacks, and you probably have a favorite one!
Working in a team of software engineers delivering real value to end-users
Contributed towards making other engineers on teams you've worked on more productive
Worked with modern programming languages such as TypeScript, maybe Golang/Rust and other more common things like Python and a bit of Bash/scripting
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 120+ 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
Our Investors
Top-tier investors backed up Neon's vision:
We raised $104+ million in funding from Menlo Ventures, Notable Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Founders Fund.
Venture vehicles of Snowflake and Databricks invested in Neon.
Our angel 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% remotely: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home
We grant equity (stock options) to 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 Lisbon, Portugal)
