# Software Engineer - Neki Orchestration

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/98011a3c-2b5e-4535-b1c6-958782311082

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

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 120000 – 290000 USD per year

## Summary

PlanetScale is seeking a Software Engineer to design and build the control plane for Neki, their sharded PostgreSQL product, handling provisioning, scaling, and disaster recovery for managed database infrastructure. This role suits experienced backend engineers who have operated large-scale distributed systems and want to work on database infrastructure challenges with direct customer impact.

_Our summary, not PlanetScale's wording._

## Skills named

Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL

## Required

- 5+ years designing and building large-scale production systems
- Strong Go proficiency
- Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications
- Experience operating distributed systems at scale
- Understanding of OS concepts including threading, memory, networking, storage, and performance

## Nice to have

- Database-as-a-service or managed database platform experience
- Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code
- Open-source contributions in Postgres or database infrastructure
- Experience with remote, geographically distributed teams
- Background at a high-growth technology company

Apply on PlanetScale's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4280570009