Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. They are seeking a Software Engineer to join their Postgres engineering team to build a world-class managed Postgres offering.
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
Skills
- 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
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