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$120,000 – $290,000
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What this role is
PlanetScale seeks a Software Engineer to build the control plane and operational tooling for their managed Postgres platform, handling provisioning, scaling, and disaster recovery at massive scale. This role suits experienced backend engineers comfortable with distributed systems, Postgres internals, and on-call responsibilities.
Our summary, not PlanetScale’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Disaster Recovery
- Go
- Infrastructure as Code
- Kubernetes
- Microsoft Azure
- Python
- Ruby
- Rust
- Zig
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What they ask for
Required
- 5+ years building and supporting 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
- Deep understanding of OS concepts: multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance
Nice to have
- Database-as-a-service or managed database platform experience
- Connection pooling and Postgres proxy layer experience
- Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code
- Open-source contributions in Postgres or database infrastructure
- Remote and geographically distributed team experience
- High-growth technology company background