Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres

PlanetScale • San Francisco, CA

12d • $120,000 - $290,000 • Remote

About The Position

PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform delivers a fully managed, multi-cloud Postgres service designed for the most demanding production workloads. We handle the complexity of provisioning, scaling, replication, and failover - so engineering teams can focus on building their products. Our customers entrust us with their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Postgres engineering team and help us build a world-class managed Postgres offering.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.
• Strong proficiency in Go, with experience in other languages like Ruby, Python, Zig or Rust.
• Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Strong experience building, operating, or maintaining large-scale Postgres deployments in production.
• An excellent understanding of low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, and performance.
• Strong fundamental computer science skills and can reason about distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment, enjoy mentoring other engineers, and communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly.
• Self-motivated and can work independently with minimal guidance while making sound technical decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building or operating a database-as-a-service or managed database platform.
• Experience with connection pooling and proxy layers for Postgres.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code.
• Contributions to open-source projects, especially in the Postgres or database infrastructure space.
• Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams.
• Previous experience at a high-growth technology company.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Postgres clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime.
• Build and maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions that keep customer databases safe through infrastructure failures.
• Tune Postgres to operate at scale for some of the largest and most demanding workloads in the world.
• Build tooling and automation for database operations, backup, restore, and migration workflows - and participate in an on-call rotation.
• Work directly with customers to understand their workloads and translate real-world needs into platform improvements.

Benefits

• Profit sharing
• Equity
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Paid holidays
• Wellness programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed