# Software Engineer - Sharded Postgres (Neki)

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/fd32a93b-4c2d-4433-bce0-379efdcfbd08

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 hiring a software engineer to build Neki, their sharded PostgreSQL product, working on distributed database infrastructure that handles massive scale. This role suits experienced backend engineers with deep database systems knowledge who want to solve complex distributed systems problems on a greenfield project.

_Our summary, not PlanetScale's wording._

## Skills named

Go, MySQL, PostgreSQL

## Required

- 5+ years backend software engineering experience
- Strong Go proficiency
- Experience developing PostgreSQL, MySQL, or other databases
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale

## Nice to have

- Database internals or query optimization expertise
- Distributed consensus algorithms knowledge
- Open-source contributions in database or infrastructure
- Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Monitoring and observability tools knowledge
- Experience at high-growth technology companies

Apply on PlanetScale's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4009936009