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Software Engineer - Sharded Postgres (Neki)

PlanetScale - San Francisco Bay Area or Remote

Posted Jul 24, 2025

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Software 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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