Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres

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.