Software Engineer – PlanetScale Postgres

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🕒 May 26

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $120k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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PlanetScale

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51 - 200 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $50M Series C on 2021-11

SaaS • Enterprise

PlanetScale is a leading cloud database platform known for its scalability and reliability, specifically as an OLTP database that allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally. Leveraging Vitess, an open-source project developed at YouTube, PlanetScale powers Tier 0 databases with scalable, distributed data management solutions trusted by major global brands like GitHub, Slack, and HubSpot. The platform offers deployment options across multi-tenant and single-tenant clouds, providing every user with robust performance backed by automatic sharding, query routing, and compliance with high security standards (such as SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA). PlanetScale is tailored for enterprises requiring reliable, efficient, and high-performing database solutions at scale, with extensive support and integration capabilities.

📋 Description

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

🎯 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• An employee's total compensation consists of base salary + variable comp where appropriate + benefits + equity.