Staff Product Manager - Datastores (Postgres Specialist)
$218,000–$300,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Render's datastores portfolio, anchored on Postgres, spanning provisioning, lifecycle management, high availability, backups, scaling, and the extension ecosystem. Drive prioritization across data investments, balancing foundational reliability work against near-term product needs while negotiating tradeoffs. Partner with Engineering and other Product teams to shape the technical direction of the data layer, ensuring architectural decisions optimize for durability, performance, and operational simplicity. Develop an opinionated point of view on how managed Postgres evolves for AI-native builders, including vector workloads and programmatically spun-up databases for agents. Set standards for developer experience by providing clear guidance, sensible defaults, and abstractions that enable production databases without requiring a DBA.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years in Product Management
- majority spent on databases, data infrastructure, developer tools, or platform products
- Familiarity with Postgres — its architecture, operational model, ecosystem, and the tradeoffs teams face running it in production
- Deep developer empathy, for both internal engineering teams and our customers
- technical depth to make sound architectural tradeoffs in collaboration with engineering
- A track record of taking ambiguous, high-stakes reliability and infrastructure problems and turning them into clear strategy and shipped outcomes
- Strong communication and storytelling skills
- instinct for reliability and data safety
- ability to negotiate tradeoffs between foundational reliability work and near-term product and business needs
- ability to develop a deep understanding of customer data needs
- ability to build conviction about where the datastores portfolio needs to go next
- ability to define what a modern managed database experience looks like
- ability to accommodate agents as users of state-keeping products
- ability to shape architectural decisions for durability, performance, and operational simplicity
- ability to provide clear guidance, sensible defaults, and abstractions that make it easy for teams to run production databases with confidence
Desired Qualifications
- Bonus if you have strong perspective on how agentic workloads and AI-native applications are reshaping database usage patterns
- Experience as a database engineer, DBA, or infrastructure engineer
- Hands-on experience with Postgres internals, replication tooling, or the extension ecosystem (e.g., pgvector, PostGIS)
- Experience building AI agents or the data infrastructure that powers them
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