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Greenhouse to Render Postgres integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Greenhouse and Render Postgres in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Greenhouse and Render Postgres

Put your workforce data where your apps can reach it: Render Postgres and Greenhouse share the same people, positions, and org structure in real time.

Greenhouse is the system of record for the people side of the business — employees, candidates, roles, and the org structure around them. Render Postgres is where internal tools, dashboards, provisioning jobs, and analytics actually read and store records. The overlap is the workforce itself: Scheduled Interviews, Users, Departments and Offices, Candidates in Greenhouse need to exist as queryable Schemas, Columns and Types, Indexes and Constraints, Tables in Render Postgres before an app can act on them. When that bridge is a nightly export or a hand-run CSV, every downstream system spends the day working from a roster that has already moved on.

Stacksync syncs Schemas, Columns and Types, Indexes and Constraints, Tables in Render Postgres with Scheduled Interviews, Users, Departments and Offices, Candidates in Greenhouse field by field, in real time. You decide which system owns which fields — Greenhouse typically owns identity and org attributes, while operational or computed values can flow back the other way — and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent, matching records on a stable key and resolving conflicts by rules you set.

The result is one live picture of the workforce on both sides: HR keeps its source of truth, and the database keeps a current mirror that internal apps, reports, and access controls can trust without a batch window in between.

Common use cases

  • 01 Capture row-level changes via logical replication and propagate them to a warehouse or another database in near real time.
  • 02 Serve as the operational read/write store behind internal tools while Stacksync keeps it consistent with SaaS systems of record.
  • 03 Stream Jobs, Departments, and Offices into a reporting database for recruiting funnel and time-to-fill dashboards.
  • 04 Export Scorecards and Scheduled Interviews to a data warehouse to analyze interviewer load and interview outcomes.

Common sync patterns

Mirror people records into the database

Records maintained in Greenhouse land as queryable Schemas, Columns and Types, Indexes and Constraints, Tables in Render Postgres, so internal apps and dashboards read live data instead of a periodic export.

One directory of record

When a person record is added, changed, or deactivated in either system, the matching row in the other stays current, ending dual maintenance.

Reporting and analytics on current data

Scheduled Interviews, Users, Departments and Offices, Candidates replicate into Render Postgres where they join operational tables, so headcount, roles, and status reports run on the live state without manual pulls.

What you can sync between Greenhouse and Render Postgres

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Greenhouse objects Render Postgres objects How this pairing syncs
Departments and Offices Org structure attached to Jobs; read and written to keep reporting hierarchies aligned with an HRIS or warehouse. Indexes and Constraints Primary keys, unique constraints, and foreign keys; unique keys drive idempotent upserts and conflict resolution during sync. Departments and Offices is specific to Greenhouse and Indexes and Constraints to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Candidates Person records with contact details, tags, and custom fields; read and written via Harvest, often created from sourcing or enrichment pipelines. Tables Relational tables with full column typing; synced two-way with CRMs, ERPs, and SaaS apps so application data is queryable as plain Postgres rows. Candidates is specific to Greenhouse and Tables to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Applications Links a Candidate to a Job; carries current stage, status, and source. Movable, rejectable, and hireable through Harvest write calls. Views Saved queries exposed as read-only relations; read out to BI tools or downstream syncs without duplicating transformation logic. Applications is specific to Greenhouse and Views to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Jobs Requisitions with openings, hiring team, departments, and offices; created and patched via Harvest, read out for funnel and time-to-fill reporting. Materialized Views Precomputed query results refreshed on demand; read for fast reporting tables that downstream systems can consume. Jobs is specific to Greenhouse and Materialized Views to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Offers Offer records tied to an Application with status and custom offer fields; readable and patchable, commonly synced to HRIS on hire. Schemas Namespaces that organize tables per app or environment; sync targets are scoped per schema to keep synced data isolated and tidy. Offers is specific to Greenhouse and Schemas to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Scorecards Interviewer feedback and ratings tied to interviews; read-only in Harvest, exported to a warehouse for interview analytics. Columns and Types Full Postgres type system including JSONB and arrays; field mappings preserve native types instead of flattening to strings. Scorecards is specific to Greenhouse and Columns and Types to Render Postgres — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Greenhouse and Render Postgres

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Greenhouse Render Postgres Sub-second propagation

DetectionGreenhouse notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks for candidate, application, job, and interview events, plus polling list endpoints with created_after / updated_after /.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to Render Postgres as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Render Postgres Greenhouse Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Render Postgres are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Logical replication via WAL and replication slots for change data capture when enabled on the instance, with timestamp or cursor-based polling as the.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Greenhouse through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Greenhouse: Harvest enforces a per-integration limit over a rolling 10-second window (X-RateLimit-Limit, commonly 50 requests / 10s for approved integrations); responses carry X-RateLimit-Remaining and, on a 429, X-RateLimit-Reset and Retry-After.
  • Render Postgres: No API rate limits — throughput is bounded by the instance's plan (CPU, RAM, connection limit); connection pooling is recommended since managed plans cap concurrent connections.
What ships with Greenhouse ⇄ Render Postgres

Connect Greenhouse and Render Postgres for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Greenhouse–Render Postgres connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Greenhouse or Render Postgres instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Greenhouse or Render Postgres data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Greenhouse or Render Postgres record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Greenhouse ⇄ Render Postgres sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Greenhouse and Render Postgres.

How the Greenhouse and Render Postgres connectors work

Greenhouse

Integration surface
Harvest REST API (plus read-only Job Board API and the Ingestion API for bulk candidate import)
Authentication
HTTP Basic Auth with a Harvest API key (key as username, blank password, colon appended then Base64-encoded); write calls require an On-Behalf-Of header naming the Greenhouse user
Change detection
HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks for candidate, application, job, and interview events, plus polling list endpoints with created_after / updated_after / last_activity_after filters
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Harvest enforces a per-integration limit over a rolling 10-second window (X-RateLimit-Limit, commonly 50 requests / 10s for approved integrations); responses carry X-RateLimit-Remaining and, on a 429, X-RateLimit-Reset and Retry-After.
Greenhouse setup guide

Render Postgres

Integration surface
PostgreSQL wire protocol (managed Postgres on Render)
Authentication
Standard Postgres connection string — host, port, database, user, password with TLS; Render provides internal and external connection URLs and IP allowlisting
Change detection
Logical replication via WAL and replication slots for change data capture when enabled on the instance, with timestamp or cursor-based polling as the fallback
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits — throughput is bounded by the instance's plan (CPU, RAM, connection limit); connection pooling is recommended since managed plans cap concurrent connections.
How it works

How to connect Greenhouse to Render Postgres — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Greenhouse and Render Postgres with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Greenhouse connected
    Render Postgres connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Greenhouse and Render Postgres objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Greenhouse ⇄ Render Postgres
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Greenhouse Render Postgres
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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