Software Engineer - Postgres Internals

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Salary

$120K-$290K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

76% above the BLS role benchmark 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.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Work mode

Remote From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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0 days From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Bootstrapped From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Software 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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