# Software Engineer - Internal Tools

Hiring organization: [PlanetScale](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/planetscale)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/02f75cd7-7808-4784-9f73-c5547730149f

Listed on PlanetScale's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Junior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 120000 – 160000 USD per year

## Summary

This role builds internal tools and automation systems that reduce manual toil across PlanetScale's engineering, support, and operations teams. It suits early-career engineers who are comfortable with AI tooling and want to ship pragmatic solutions quickly while working in-office in San Francisco.

_Our summary, not PlanetScale's wording._

## Skills named

GitHub Actions, Go, Kubernetes, Ruby, Terraform, TypeScript

## Required

- 0–2 years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent project/internship work
- Proficiency in TypeScript, Ruby, or Go
- Comfortable building with AI coding tools and LLM APIs
- Able to write scripts, small services, or automations that solve real problems
- Clear written communication
- Based in San Francisco Bay Area
- Able to work in-office at San Francisco headquarters most days
- Authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship

## Nice to have

- Experience with Slack API, GitHub Actions, or similar automation platforms
- Exposure to Terraform or Kubernetes
- Side project, bot, or tool built to automate something personal

Apply on PlanetScale's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4389100009