Software Engineer - Neki Orchestration

PlanetScale

$120K — $290K *
US-AnywhereRemote in San Francisco, CA
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with large-scale systems in production.
  • Strong proficiency in Go, plus experience in languages like Ruby or Python.
  • Experience with distributed, fault-tolerant services.
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the control plane for provisioning, scaling, and healing Neki clusters.
  • Maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions for customer databases.
  • Develop tooling and automation for database operations, backup, restore, and migration workflows.
  • Engage with customers to understand workloads and translate them into platform improvements.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure service reliability.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment fostering mentorship and knowledge sharing.
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in database management.
  • Engagement with customers to influence product direction and improvements.
  • Chance to contribute to open-source projects in the database infrastructure domain.
Full Job Description
We're bringing the same scaling power to PostgreSQL with Neki, our sharded PostgreSQL product, and we're looking for Software Engineers to come help orchestrate Neki.

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 Neki team to bring Neki to the cloud.
What's the job to be done?
  • You will design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Neki 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 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.
These attributes best describe you...
  • You have strong experience building, operating, or maintaining large-scale Postgres deployments in production.
  • You have an excellent understanding of low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, and performance.
  • You have strong fundamental computer science skills and can reason about distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
  • You thrive in a collaborative environment, enjoy mentoring other engineers, and communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly.
  • You are self-motivated and can work independently with minimal guidance while making sound technical decisions.
What you will need
  • 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 etc
  • Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services.
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications.
  • Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
What else will help you be successful
  • Experience building or operating a database-as-a-service or managed database platform.
  • 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.
Total Compensation and Pay Transparency

An employee's total compensation consists of base salary + variable comp where appropriate + benefits + equity. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to answer any further questions when we engage with you to begin the interview process.

Base salary range: $120,000 - $290,000 USD

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