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$120,000 – $290,000
Listed on PlanetScale’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
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. The full posting is on their site.
What they ask for
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