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PlanetScale
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Software Engineer - Neki Orchestration
San Francisco Bay Area or Remote
remote $120K-$290KSoftware Engineer - Neki Orchestration San Francisco Bay Area or Remote PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both PostgresQL and Vitess clusters. Vitess is an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads - without sacrificing developer experience. We're bringing the same scaling power to PostgreSQL with Neki, our sharded PostgreSQL product, and we're looking for Software Engineers to come help orchestrate Neki. 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 Neki team to bring Neki to the cloud. What's the job to be done? - You will design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Neki 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 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
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Software Engineer - Postgres Internals
San Francisco Bay Area or Remote
remote $120K-$290KSoftware Engineer - Postgres Internals San Francisco Bay Area or Remote PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both Postgres and Vitess clusters. Vitess, an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads - without sacrificing developer experience. About the role As a PostgreSQL Core Engineer, you will spend most of your time contributing upstream to the PostgreSQL core engine and maintaining the Postgres extensions - both open-source community projects and Planetscale's proprietary extensions - that power our Postgres offering. What You'll Do - Author and review patches to the PostgreSQL core engine: performance, features, bug fixes, and security - landed through the pgsql-hackers mailing list and the Commitfest process. - Maintain Postgres extensions, both open-source (community projects we depend on) and proprietary (Planetscale-owned). Includes feature work, bug fixes, performance tuning, and major-version compatibility. - Review community patches with rigor on correctness, stability, and PostgreSQL coding conventions. - Engage the PostgreSQL community in design discussions, the 5 (five) annual Commitfests, and conferences. - Root-cause Postgres issues affecting Planetscale customers and turn fixes into upstream patches when applicable. - Improve documentation for PostgreSQL and our extensions as part of every change. What We're Looking For Required: - Strong C programming skills in large, established codebases. - Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL internals : MVCC, query planner/executor, WAL, vacuum, replication, memory contexts. - Demonstrated open-source contributions to PostgreSQL or comparable database projects (accepted patches, reviews, or extensions). -
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Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres
Remote
remote $120K-$290KSoftware Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres Remote 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
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Software Engineer - Insights
San Francisco Bay Area or Remote
remote $120K-$290KSoftware Engineer - Insights San Francisco Bay Area or Remote PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both Postgres and Vitess clusters. Vitess, an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads - without sacrificing developer experience. PlanetScale is seeking an engineer to join our Insights team to help build our customer facing database observability product. Insights helps developers understand their database performance and provides visibility into query patterns, performance metrics and database health across both Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL systems. What You'll Do - Instrument Vitess, MySQL and PostgreSQL to emit performance data - Design, implement and maintain our data collection pipeline - Create intuitive dashboards and visualizations that surface actionable database insights - Develop APIs and integrations that expose insights data to customers - Collaborate with other teams to define the next generation of database observability features - Build tools for query analysis, performance profiling, and anomaly detection - Own features end-to-end, from initial design through production deployment and monitoring - Partner with customers and support teams to understand real-world observability challenges What We're Looking For Required: - 5+ years of software engineering experience - Experience building observability, monitoring, or telemetry products (APM, logs, metrics, traces, etc.) - Experience with distributed systems and data pipelines - Proficiency with time-series data and aggregation patterns - Backend development experience (Go, Rust, Ruby, Python, or similar) - Comfort working across the full stack and switching between different
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Software Engineer - Platform
EMEA Remote
remote $120K-$290KSoftware Engineer - Platform EMEA Remote PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both Postgres and Vitess clusters. Vitess, an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads - without sacrificing developer experience. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our core engineering team and help us build the next generation of database infrastructure. What's the job to be done? - You will design and build critical systems that power PlanetScale's database platform, serving millions of queries per second for some of the world's largest applications. - You will collaborate with a team of expert engineers to solve complex distributed systems challenges. - You will work independently to solve engineering and business problems with little direction and high autonomy. - You will work directly with customers to understand their needs and translate them into robust technical solutions. These attributes best describe you… - You are passionate about building high-quality, scalable systems and take pride in writing clean, maintainable code. - You have strong experience with distributed systems, databases, and performance optimization. - You are comfortable working with large codebases and can quickly understand and contribute to complex systems. - You thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy mentoring junior engineers. - You have excellent problem-solving skills and can debug complex issues across multiple
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Software Engineer - Surfaces
San Francisco Bay Area or Remote
remote $120K-$290KSoftware Engineer - Surfaces San Francisco Bay Area or Remote PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both Postgres and Vitess clusters. Vitess, an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads - without sacrificing developer experience. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Surfaces team. The Surfaces team is responsible for all user-facing UIs, CLIs and APIs. We build and maintain the PlanetScale dashboard, APIs and billing systems every PlanetScale user relies on to launch and manage their databases. What's the job to be done? You will work on app.planetscale.com , the central control plane for every PlanetScale database, responsible for the creation and management of some of the worlds most important Vitess and Postgres databases. You will get to work across languages. Our CLI is written in Go, the dashboard is React + TypeScript, and the backend API is Ruby on Rails. You will get the opportunity to learn and deeply understand Vitess and Postgres. Working with our design team, you will apply your skills and taste to solve database DX challenges. Building truly the best database for developers. You will build, document, and publish RESTful APIs used by both end users and our user-facing dashboard. You will work on internal admin tools (chatbots, admin panels) to assist our engineers
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Solutions Engineer
Remote - EMEA, Remote - NA
remote $160K-$250KSolutions Engineer Remote - EMEA, Remote - NA PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the transactional database market. The PlanetScale platform offers both Postgres and Vitess clusters. Vitess, an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads - without sacrificing developer experience. PlanetScale is backed with over $100M in venture financing from top-tier VCs including a16z, Kleiner Perkins, SignalFire, and Insight Venture Partners. And we serve some of the most innovative companies in the world such as Block, Anysphere (Cursor), MyFitnessPal, Etsy, Kick, and thousands more. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for early members of our Sales team that can form deep partnerships with our prospects and customers to help them adopt and succeed on the next generation of database infrastructure. What's the job to be done? - Partner with Sales and Customer Engineering throughout the pre-sales and post-sales journey as the technical expert helping customers solve their most challenging database problems. - Lead technical discovery to match customers' business and technical objectives with PlanetScale's offerings. - Design and execute proof of value timelines that deliver on agreed upon business outcomes and success criteria. - Design database migration strategies and work hands-on with customers to execute migrations to PlanetScale's PostgreSQL and Vitess platforms. - Assess workloads, analyze performance requirements, and recommend architecture, sizing, and optimization strategies. - Build tools, scripts, and automation that
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Developer Educator
San Francisco and/or US Remote
remote $130K-$200KDeveloper Educator San Francisco and/or US Remote PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. Our database platform offers developers the fastest and most reliable Postgres and Vitess+MySQL databases, enabling businesses to efficiently handle data and workloads of all scales. We also take DX seriously. Our platform enables developers with deep performance insights, AI integration, powerful cluster management, and schema migration tooling. Our customers trust us with what is often their most precious digital asset: their data. The stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Developer Educator who is excited about bringing database education to new heights, creating unique and engaging content, helping customers, and building the PlanetScale engineering community at conferences, events, and online. The job - Create technical content to help customers and engineers at-large learn how Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, Neki, and the PlanetScale ecosystem works - Speak at conferences and events, representing PlanetScale in the database and engineering community - Create and refine product documentation - Host livestreams and webinars to engage with and educate our community - Your role may contain between 20-50% travel to connect with developers at events worldwide The ideal candidate - Teaches complex technical concepts in accessible ways - Loves learning about and explaining full-stack application development, databases, and compute infrastructure - Is a natural communicator who can adapt your message for different audiences - Thrives in community settings and enjoy building relationships with developers - Has excellent writing skills and can produce content that engineers actually want to read
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Software Engineer - Sharded Postgres (Neki)
San Francisco Bay Area or Remote
remote $120K-$290KSoftware Engineer - Sharded Postgres (Neki) San Francisco Bay Area or Remote PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both PostgresQL and Vitess clusters. Vitess is an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads - without sacrificing developer experience. We're bringing the same scaling power to PostgreSQL with Neki, our sharded PostgreSQL product, and we're looking for Software Engineers to come help build it from scratch. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our core engineering team and help us build the next generation of database infrastructure. What's the job to be done? - You will work on building the best solution for sharded Postgres, a project we're calling Neki: https://www.neki.dev/ - You will design and build critical systems that power PlanetScale's database platform, serving millions of queries per second for some of the world's largest applications. - You will collaborate with a team of expert engineers to solve complex distributed systems challenges. - You will work independently to solve engineering and business problems with little direction and high autonomy. - You will work directly with customers to understand their needs and translate them into robust technical solutions. These attributes best describe you… - You are passionate about building high-quality, scalable systems and take pride in writing clean, maintainable code. - You
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Software Engineer - Information Security
San Francisco Bay Area or Remote
remote $140K-$320KSoftware Engineer - Information Security San Francisco Bay Area or Remote PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both PostgreSQL and Vitess clusters and will soon offer sharded PostgreSQL clusters with Neki. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer: Information Security to join our team and help us build security into every layer of our infrastructure while maintaining our exceptional developer experience. What's the job to be done? - You will design and implement security controls for PlanetScale's cloud-native database platform, protecting millions of queries per second for some of the world's largest applications. - You will collaborate with engineering teams to conduct security reviews, threat modeling, and provide secure coding guidance across our distributed systems. - A special focus for this role is on proactive red teaming and testing - you will consistently try to break into the PlanetScale platform as an attacker would, and help patch what you find - You will evaluate, procure, and implement proactive security tools and technologies to strengthen our security posture. - You will work closely with our compliance team to ensure adherence to SOC 2, PCI DSS, and other security frameworks. - You will build security automation and tooling to scale security practices across the engineering organization. - You will respond to security incidents and conduct post-incident reviews to improve our security resilience. These attributes best
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Enterprise Support Engineer
Remote - NA, APAC, EMEA
remote $120K-$200KEnterprise Support Engineer Remote - NA, APAC, EMEA PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both Postgres and Vitess clusters. Vitess, an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads - without sacrificing developer experience. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our core engineering team and help us build the next generation of database infrastructure. What's the job to be done? - You will advise and handle support requests from enterprise customers on the PlanetScale platform. - You will become a customer-facing subject-matter expert for enterprise customers on the PlanetScale platform. - You will identify product gaps in a customer-specific context and work with Technical Account Management, Engineering and Sales Engineering teams to prioritize and escalate them. - You will be part of an on call rotation for high priority issues. These attributes best describe you… - You are comfortable in front of customers, empathetic but understanding when to push back to help customers become successful on their own. - You have excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills; with a mix of enough experience and intuition to zero in on root-causes for bugs that can leave others stumped. - You are comfortable stepping outside your comfort zone. Be it delving into unfamiliar code in Vitess, one of its dependencies, or a random MySQL
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Software Engineer - PlanetScale Vitess
EMEA - Remote
remote $120K-$290KSoftware Engineer - PlanetScale Vitess EMEA - Remote PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both Postgres and Vitess clusters. Vitess, an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads - without sacrificing developer experience. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our core engineering team and help us build the next generation of database infrastructure. What's the job to be done? - You will design and build critical systems that power PlanetScale's database platform, serving millions of queries per second for some of the world's largest applications. - You will collaborate with a team of expert engineers to solve complex distributed systems challenges. - You will work independently to solve engineering and business problems with little direction and high autonomy. - You will work directly with customers to understand their needs and translate them into robust technical solutions. These attributes best describe you… - You are passionate about building high-quality, scalable systems and take pride in writing clean, maintainable code. - You have strong experience with distributed systems, databases, and performance optimization. - You are comfortable working with large codebases and can quickly understand and contribute to complex systems. - You thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy mentoring junior engineers. - You have excellent problem-solving skills and can debug complex issues