Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres

5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.

Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services.

Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications.

Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.

Experience building or operating a database-as-a-service or managed database platform.

Experience with connection pooling and proxy layers for Postgres.

An employee's total compensation consists of base salary + variable comp where appropriate + benefits + equity. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to answer any further questions when we engage with you to begin the interview process.

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.