Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres
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.
About the job
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Tune Postgres to operate at scale for large, demanding workloads.
- Build tooling and automation for database operations, backup, restore, and migration workflows; participate in on-call rotation.
- Work directly with customers to understand 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 in 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 (multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance).
- Strong fundamental computer science skills; ability to reason about distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
Nice-to-Haves
- 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.
Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary range: $120,000 - $290,000 USD
- Total compensation includes base salary + variable comp + benefits + equity.
Skills
Go, Kubernetes, Postgres, Distributed Systems, AWS, GCP, Azure, Ruby, Python, Rust
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