PlanetScale
Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres
$120K–$290K
Remote +3 · Remote · Full-time · Posted May 19, 2026
- Location
- Remote
Remote - EMEA
Remote - NA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.
About the job
Build and operate the control plane and reliability features for PlanetScale’s managed Postgres service.
What you'll do
- Design and build systems to provision, scale, and heal Postgres clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime.
- Develop high availability, disaster recovery, data protection, and database operations tooling, including backup, restore, and migration workflows; participate in on-call.
- Tune Postgres for demanding workloads and work with customers to translate their needs into platform improvements.
What they ask for
- Strong experience building, operating, or maintaining large-scale Postgres deployments in production.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale production systems.
- Strong proficiency in Go; experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services and operating distributed systems at scale.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications.
Nice to have
- Experience with a database-as-a-service or managed database platform, or with Postgres connection pooling and proxy layers.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure-as-code; open-source contributions, especially in Postgres or database infrastructure, are also helpful.
Pay
$120,000 - $290,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Postgres, Go, Ruby, Python, Zig, Rust, Kubernetes, AWS
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