# Software Engineer

**Company:** [PlanetScale](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/planetscale)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $120k – $290k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, Postgres, Python, Ruby, AWS, GCP, Azure, Infrastructure As Code
**Posted:** 2026-06-11

> 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.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Neki clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime.
- Build and maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions that keep customer databases safe through infrastructure failures.
- Build tooling and automation for database operations, backup, restore, and migration workflows.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
- Work directly with customers to understand their workloads and translate real-world needs into platform improvements.

## Requirements
- 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.
- 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, fault-tolerant systems.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building or operating a database-as-a-service or managed database platform.
- 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.

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