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.
What's the job to be done?- 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.
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, 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.
What else will help you be successful- 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.
Total Compensation and Pay TransparencyAn 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
