Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Postgres clusters
• Build and maintain 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, and migration
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Work directly with customers to translate real-world needs into platform improvements

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing and supporting large-scale systems
• Strong proficiency in Go
• Experience with 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 in the Postgres or database infrastructure space
• Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams

About the Company

PlanetScale is a profitable, high-growth company reinventing the database space by delivering a fully managed, multi-cloud Postgres service designed for the most demanding production workloads.