Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres
Core
Design and build the control plane for a fully managed, multi-cloud Postgres service, handling provisioning, scaling, replication, and failover for demanding production workloads.
Role type
Senior IC infrastructure engineer (managed Postgres platform)
Builds
A world-class managed Postgres offering serving high-growth companies in gaming, consumer tech, and B2B SaaS
Domain
Cloud infrastructure + Database systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, distributed systems design, fault-tolerance, low-level OS concepts (multi-threading, memory, networking, storage), Kubernetes, containerization, database operations automation
Preferred skills
Database-as-a-service experience, connection pooling/proxy layers, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), infrastructure-as-code, open-source contributions
Technologies
Postgres, Go, Kubernetes, Ruby, Python, Zig, Rust, AWS, GCP, Azure
Responsibilities
Design and build the control plane for Postgres cluster provisioning and scaling; build high availability and disaster recovery solutions; tune Postgres for large-scale workloads; build tooling for backup, restore, and migration workflows; work directly with customers to translate needs into platform improvements
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC