pganalyze careers: remote jobs, culture and where they hire

pganalyze builds deep observability and performance tuning tools for PostgreSQL: the Query Advisor detects and fixes query plan problems, the Index Advisor finds missing indexes, the VACUUM Advisor optimizes bloat and freezing, and Workbooks give teams a dedicated environment for query optimization. The advisors run on deterministic, rule-based logic rather than black-box suggestions. The company (legally Duboce Labs, Inc.) says hundreds of companies monitor their production Postgres databases with it, with published case studies from Notion, Auto Trader UK and CounterPath, and job postings naming Fivetran and Robinhood as customers; founder Lukas Fittl cited 500+ customers including Atlassian and DoorDash in a 2023 interview.

Fittl started pganalyze in 2012 to scratch his own itch after years of manual database tuning, and ran it as a side project for seven years while working as a founding engineer at Citus Data (acquired by Microsoft in 2019). The company has stayed independent and profitable without outside funding, growing to 7-figure ARR on inbound content marketing alone: deep technical blog posts, webinars, and the weekly 5mins of Postgres video series, which passed 100 episodes in March 2024. The team also maintains libpg_query, an open-source Postgres SQL parsing library used by many other projects, and contributes to Postgres itself.

Lukas Fittl, Founder and CEO. Started pganalyze in 2012 and ran it as a side project for seven years while a founding engineer at Citus Data, which Microsoft acquired in 2019; earlier he co-founded startups after beginning his career at a web hosting company. He has worked in the Postgres ecosystem for over 15 years, runs the weekly 5mins of Postgres video series (100+ episodes), maintains libpg_query, and grew pganalyze to 7-figure ARR with no outside funding or sales team.

The company operates on a 4-day work week, prioritizing focus, sustainability and high-impact work over long hours, and describes itself as remote-first with a culture built on trust: async-first communication, real vacation time, 6-week planning cycles, and deep technical work over shiny distractions. The team is small (about 11 people per LinkedIn as of October 2026, spread across the United States, Austria and Canada, with the core team in the San Francisco Bay Area) and independent, so it decides its own roadmap and priorities.

Pay is published on postings: the Marketing Manager role open as of October 2026 lists $130K to $160K plus equity for US remote. You work directly with highly technical customers and the Postgres community, at a company that is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and deeply embedded in the ecosystem through conference talks, open-source work and its own webinar and video series.

The about page is explicit about the operating philosophy: thoughtful growth, not growth at all costs. That means async-first communication across time zones, 6-week cycles, and values the company names as precision, respect and focus. The 4-day work week is a standing policy mentioned in job postings, not a perk experiment.

The team is technical top to bottom, including marketing: the current marketing posting asks for the ability to write for software engineers, DBAs and data teams, experience knowing when not to rely on generative AI tools, and familiarity with CLI tools including using Claude Code to ship changes to the marketing website. Content is educational and grounded in real engineering problems rather than hype.

Open roles live on the Ashby board at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pganalyze. As of October 3, 2026 there is one opening: Marketing Manager, full-time, remote in the United States, $130K to $160K plus equity, published in March 2026. The role works directly with VP of Marketing Laura Kelso on campaigns, organic social, HubSpot operations, sales enablement, webinars and the event program, requires working-hours overlap with US Pacific time, and involves travel roughly 5 times per year for conferences and booths. Note that the careers page at https://pganalyze.com/careers does not currently list individual roles; the Ashby board is the source of truth.

Engineering hiring happens in waves rather than continuously: in February 2025 the company hired for Senior Product Engineer, Senior Solutions Engineer and Principal Postgres Database Engineer, all remote, but no engineering roles are open as of October 2026. The company does not publish its interview process; for the current role it wants devtools or infrastructure marketing experience, HubSpot fluency and strong writing for technical audiences.