PlanetScale - Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres
Responsibilities
• 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. • 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.
Benefits
• We're redefining how high-growth companies manage data at scale—and we work with some of the most exciting brands in gaming, consumer tech, and B2B SaaS. As a Software Engineer, you'll be at the core of building the platform that powers world-class apps used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide. PlanetScale is a profitable company with a philosophy centered around building small teams of p99 individuals and is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America. • At PlanetScale we believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive no matter the location. Our mission is to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company. We strive to build an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are a candidate or an employee. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, pregnancy status, and veteran status. • If you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate! • 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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