FewerJobs.
All jobs

Software Engineer - Neki Orchestration

PlanetScale - San Francisco Bay Area or Remote

Posted Jun 11, 2026

Benefits

Parental leave
Not verified
Non-birth-parent leave
Not verified
Family-building benefits
  • Fertility benefits: Not verified
  • Adoption assistance: Not verified
  • Surrogacy assistance: Not verified
Mental health support
Not verified
Relocation assistance
Not verified
Childcare support
Not verified
Learning budget
Not verified
Verification
Not verified
Salary
Not verified not verified - source not recorded; timestamp not recorded
401(k) match
Not verified

Was this benefit information wrong? Tell us.

Market context

Median wage (BLS OEWS)
$116,543 national median
Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)
+9.8% - Much faster than average

76% above the BLS national median for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Schedule

Shift type
Not verified
Weekend work
Not verified

Application

Cover letter
Not verified
Assessment
Not verified
Deadline
Not stated

Where they hire

State eligibility is not yet verified.

About this role

Software 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

Read the full description at job-boards.greenhouse.io. FewerJobs shows a source-linked preview and links to the original posting.

Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io

Apply link not verified; last-live date unavailable.

What verified means

Verified means a displayed claim has a recorded source field, a source URL when available, and a timestamp showing when FewerJobs checked or enriched the evidence.

Related jobs