Latest Backend Engineering jobs at PlanetScale

Builds and operates scalable backend database infrastructure for PlanetScale’s Vitess platform, solving distributed-systems and performance challenges at scale. Requires 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, strong Go proficiency, and expertise with databases and Kubernetes.

Design and build the control plane for provisioning, scaling, and healing Neki (sharded PostgreSQL) clusters. Requires 5+ years experience, strong Go proficiency, Kubernetes, and distributed systems expertise.

Design and build the control plane and tooling for a managed Postgres service, focusing on HA, DR, scaling, and automation for large-scale deployments. Requires 5+ years experience, strong Go skills, and deep Postgres/distributed systems knowledge.

Build customer-facing database observability product for Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL, including data collection pipelines, dashboards, query analysis, and performance profiling tools. Requires 5+ years experience and observability/monitoring background.

Software Engineer building PlanetScale's sharded PostgreSQL platform (Neki) from scratch. Focus on distributed systems, database engines, and high-scale query performance with strong Go and backend experience.