SoftwareEngineer-PlanetScalePostgres

## Accountabilities Design and build the control plane responsible for provisioning, scaling, and maintaining Postgres clusters with minimal downtime. Develop and improve high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection mechanisms for production database systems. Optimize Postgres performance to support large-scale, high-throughput workloads in distributed environments. Build automation, tooling, and workflows for database operations including backups, restores, migrations, and failover handling. Contribute to the design and operation of distributed, fault-tolerant systems ensuring reliability and scalability. Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents, ensuring system stability and fast recovery. Collaborate with customers and internal teams to understand workload patterns and translate them into platform enhancements. Contribute to ongoing improvements in observability, reliability engineering, and operational excellence. Requirements 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems. Strong proficiency in Go, with additional experience in languages such as Python, Ruby, Rust, or Zig. Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including fault tolerance, consistency, and scalability. Strong knowledge of low-level system concepts such as memory management, networking, storage, and concurrency. Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized infrastructure. Proven experience working with large-scale Postgres deployments or similar database systems in production. Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate independently in complex technical environments. Excellent communication skills and ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and stakeholders. Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure is highly desirable. Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code practices and modern DevOps workflows is a plus. Experience in datab