Neon Backend Engineer

We are looking for a talented Software Engineer based in Europe to join our new API Platform team This team owns Neon's public API and Console service – the foundation every internal product squad builds on – so that developers can create, deploy, and operate features rapidly and with rock‑solid reliability By delivering clear API contracts, actionable customer‑level usage insights, and robust deployment pipelines that support multi‑region roll‑outs and zero‑downtime releases, you will help every Neon feature team ship faster while meeting the highest standards for stability, observability, and performance As a member of this team, you will tackle high‑impact initiatives such as rolling out end‑to‑end tracing, introducing cross‑regional failover, hardening CI/CD workflows, and shaping usage metrics You will collaborate closely with peer engineering teams to bake platform best practices directly into their workflows This is a unique opportunity to define the backbone of Neon's developer experience. If you enjoy crafting robust Go backends, enabling fellow engineers to move quickly, and driving reliability at scale – from code to deployment – we'd love to hear from you! Own the API as a product: design versioning, throttling, and customer‑level usage metrics; ensure backward‑compatibility for clients Expand reliability: deliver end‑to‑end tracing, structured logs, rich metrics, and proactive error tracking as self‑service building blocks for every feature team Drive scalability initiatives: guide performance‑ and capacity‑driven architecture work so our platform stays fast, cost‑efficient, and resilient as traffic grows 10x Collaborate: mentor teammates, facilitate architecture reviews, and co-shape the engineering roadmap

Modern data storage systems for web, mobile, geospatial and analytics applications are commonly based on PostgreSQL, an open-source relational database management system. Whilst its open-source nature yields many benefits, the system was developed over 25 years ago and thus is not optimized for modern multi-cloud infrastructures. Neon provides a cloud-native serverless PostgreSQL launching system, separating storage and computing requirements to facilitate unlimited storage, branching, and autoscaling. The system's flexibility comes from automatic computing activation and shutdown to save resources on inactivity, ultimately adapting each database to its real-time processing requirements. Whilst standard PostgreSQL databases are certainly more documented and prevalent, Neon has shown great potential to innovate upon it through its focus on multi-cloud infrastructure and flexible scalability. The company also stands out by providing early access to users for free, providing them with 3 projects, up to 10GB storage, and computing capabilities of up to 1 vCPU per 256MB. Its work in the sector has led to substantial funding in 2023, which is being used to elevate its R&D in the AI space, as well as plans to double its workforce.