Engineering Manager, DevEx PostgreSQL

• 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

• 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
• 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

• Participate in Aiven’s equity plan
• hybrid work policy
• Get the equipment you need to set yourself up for success
• real employer support (use one of our learning platforms, annual learning budget, and more)
• Get holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program
• Contribute to open source projects that you find meaningful outside of work - and get paid for it! Our Plankton program recognizes extra work to the open source ecosystem for developers and non-developers alike
• Use up to 5 days per year to volunteer for a good cause of your choice
• Join one of our team member resource groups - empower yourself and others in missions that resonate with you
• extensive Occupational Health Care, Dental Care, as well as sports, culture, massage and lunch benefits
• regular office breakfast
• covered by statutory accident insurance