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Staff /Principal Product Manager - Data and Storage

Render· Product & Design Organization
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Remote$218k - $300kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Staff/Principal Product Manager to own the vision and roadmap for Render's datastores portfolio, with Postgres at the center. Defines modern managed database experiences, adapts database products to AI-native/state patterns, and collaborates with engineering and customers to steer the data layer strategy.

Responsibilities

  • Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Render's datastores, anchored on Postgres. Your scope spans provisioning and lifecycle management, high availability and disaster recovery, backups and point-in-time recovery, scaling and performance, connection management, and the extension ecosystem.
  • Drive prioritization across Render's data investments, balancing foundational reliability work (replication, failover, storage performance) against near-term product and business needs, negotiating tradeoffs.
  • Partner deeply with Engineering & other Product teams to shape the technical direction of Render's data layer, ensuring architectural decisions optimize durability, performance, and operational simplicity.
  • Develop a strong, opinionated point of view on how managed Postgres needs to evolve to serve AI-native builders — including vector workloads and retrieval pipelines, and programmatic DB provisioning by agents at scale.
  • Set the standard for how developers experience data on Render, providing clear guidance, sensible defaults, and abstractions that enable production databases without a DBA on staff.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in Product Management, with the majority spent on databases, data infrastructure, developer tools, or platform products.
  • Familiarity with Postgres — architecture, operational model, ecosystem, and production tradeoffs; bonus for perspective on agentic workloads and AI-native applications.
  • Deep developer empathy for internal engineering teams and customers; ability to make sound architectural tradeoffs with engineering.
  • Track record of translating ambiguous reliability/infrastructure problems into clear strategy and shipped outcomes.
  • Strong communication and storytelling skills.

Skills

Required:Product management for data infrastructurePostgreSQL familiarityArchitectural decision-makingStakeholder communication

Benefits

  • 4 weeks of paid vacation.
  • 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
  • Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
  • 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent; FSAs and HSAs available.
  • Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
  • Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
  • Commuter benefits for Bay Area Renders, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
  • Continuous learning benefits & related support.
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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