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Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres

1 month, 3 weeks ago
Anywhere
Full-time
Senior
Database Administrator
Software Development
AWS Azure GCP Go Kubernetes PostgreSQL Python Ruby Rust Zig
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PlanetScale

PlanetScale

PlanetScale is the world's most advanced, fully managed MySQL database platform that offers scale, performance, and reliability powered by Vitess. It is a serverless platform designed for developers, enabling schema changes without locking tables, zero...

IT Services
51-250
Founded 2018
$105M raised
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Description

  • Design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Postgres clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime.
  • Build and maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions for customer databases.
  • Tune Postgres to run reliably and efficiently at scale for demanding workloads.
  • Build tooling and automation for database operations, backup, restore, and migration workflows.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems.
  • Work directly with customers to understand their workloads and translate needs into platform improvements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.
  • Strong proficiency in Go.
  • Experience with other languages such as 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.
  • Strong experience building, operating, or maintaining large-scale Postgres deployments in production.
  • Excellent understanding of low-level operating systems concepts, including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, and performance.
  • Strong fundamental computer science skills and ability to reason about distributed systems.
  • Experience building or operating a database-as-a-service or managed database platform (preferred).
  • Experience with connection pooling and proxy layers for Postgres (preferred).
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and infrastructure-as-code (preferred).
  • Contributions to open-source projects, especially in the Postgres or database infrastructure space (preferred).
  • Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams (preferred).
  • Previous experience at a high-growth technology company (preferred).

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $120,000 - $290,000 USD.
  • Total compensation includes base salary, variable comp where appropriate, benefits, and equity.
  • Opportunity to work at a profitable, fast-growing company with small teams.
  • Flexible support for employees to do their best work regardless of location.
  • Inclusive, equitable, and diverse work environment.
  • Interview process accommodations for candidates with disabilities.

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