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$120,000 – $290,000
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What this role is
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.
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What they ask for
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