Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Postgres clusters with minimal downtime
• ▹Build high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions
• ▹Tune Postgres to operate at scale for demanding workloads
• ▹Build tooling and automation for database operations, backup, restore, migration; participate in on-call
• ▹Work directly with customers to translate real-world needs into platform improvements

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of software engineering experience designing and supporting large-scale production systems
• ▹Strong proficiency in Go, with experience in Ruby, Python, Zig or Rust
• ▹Experience building distributed, fault-tolerant services
• ▹Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications
• ▹Experience operating distributed systems at scale

Nice to have

• ▹Experience building or operating a database-as-a-service platform
• ▹Experience with connection pooling and proxy layers for Postgres
• ▹Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code
• ▹Open-source contributions, especially in Postgres or database infrastructure
• ▹Experience with remote, distributed teams
• ▹Previous experience at a high-growth tech company

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Remote-friendly, location-independent work

About the company

PlanetScale is a profitable, fast-growing company built around small teams of top performers, building the platform behind the world's largest apps.