PlanetScale
SoftwareEngineer-PlanetScalePostgres
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“Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres at PlanetScale. Skills: Postgres, distributed systems, fault-tolerant systems, control plane development, high availability, disaster recovery, data protection, performance tuning. design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Postgres clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime. build and maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions that keep customer databases safe through infrastructure failur”
Industry & Context.
reason about distributed, fault-tolerant systems; making sound technical decisions
participate in an on-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production, proficiency in Go, 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, experience building, operating, or maintaining large-scale Postgres deployments in production, excellent understanding of low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, and performance, fundamental computer science skills and can reason about distributed, fault-tolerant systems
Nice to Have
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
What You'll Do.
design and build the control plane that provisions
and heals Postgres clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime
build and maintain high availability
and data protection solutions that keep customer databases safe through infrastructure failures
tune Postgres to operate at scale for some of the largest and most demanding workloads in the world
build tooling and automation for database operations
and migration workflows
work directly with customers to understand their workloads and translate real-world needs into platform improvements
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
thrive in a collaborative environment; enjoy mentoring other engineers
Communication Scope
communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly
Full Job Description
PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform delivers a fully managed, multi-cloud Postgres service designed for the most demanding production workloads. We handle the complexity of provisioning, scaling, replication, and failover - so engineering teams can focus on building their products. Our customers entrust us with their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Postgres engineering team and help us build a world-class managed Postgres offering. What's the job to be done? 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. These attributes best describe you… 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. What you will need 5+ years of software enginee
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