Software Engineer - Neki Orchestration
PlanetScale3 months ago
Remote, United States or San Francisco, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$120k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build the Neki control plane for provisioning, scaling, and healing clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime.
- Build and maintain high-availability, disaster-recovery, and data-protection solutions.
- Develop tooling and automation for database operations, backup, restore, and migration workflows.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
- Work directly with customers to understand workloads and translate needs into platform improvements.
- Collaborate with and mentor other engineers while communicating complex technical tradeoffs.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale production systems.
- Strong proficiency in Go, with experience in languages such as Ruby and Python.
- Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services at scale.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications.
- Strong experience building, operating, or maintaining large-scale PostgreSQL deployments in production.
- Understanding of operating-systems concepts including multithreading, memory management, networking, storage, and performance.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and ability to reason about distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure-as-code is helpful.
- Experience with database-as-a-service or managed database platforms is helpful.
- Open-source contributions, particularly in PostgreSQL or database infrastructure, are helpful.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly work arrangement with support for working from any location
- Inclusive and accommodating interview process
- Benefits and equity are part of total compensation
Tech Stack
About PlanetScale
PlanetScale provides a managed database platform for developers, offering MySQL-compatible (Vitess-based) and Postgres services with features like horizontal sharding and non-blocking schema changes, delivered as SaaS. The product targets teams running high-scale transactional workloads and modern application backends. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held, with customers including Block, Etsy, MyFitnessPal, Anysphere (Cursor), and Kick.