Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres

PlanetScale is a rapidly growing company reinventing the database space with a fully managed, multi-cloud Postgres service. The Software Engineer will join the Postgres engineering team to design and build solutions for provisioning, scaling, and maintaining Postgres clusters.

Responsibilities:

• You will design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Postgres clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime
• You will build and maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions that keep customer databases safe through infrastructure failures
• You will tune Postgres to operate at scale for some of the largest and most demanding workloads in the world
• You will build tooling and automation for database operations, backup, restore, and migration workflows - and participate in an on-call rotation
• You will work directly with customers to understand their workloads and translate real-world needs into platform improvements

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production
• Strong proficiency in Go, with experience in other languages like Ruby, Python, Zig or Rust
• Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale
• You have strong experience building, operating, or maintaining large-scale Postgres deployments in production
• You have an excellent understanding of low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, and performance
• You have strong fundamental computer science skills and can reason about distributed, fault-tolerant systems
• You thrive in a collaborative environment, enjoy mentoring other engineers, and communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly
• You are self-motivated and can work independently with minimal guidance while making sound technical decisions
• Experience building or operating a database-as-a-service or managed database platform
• Experience with connection pooling and proxy layers for Postgres
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code
• Contributions to open-source projects, especially in the Postgres or database infrastructure space
• Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams
• Previous experience at a high-growth technology company