PlanetScale
Software Engineer - Neki Orchestration
San Francisco Bay Area or Remote
Sponsorship not specified$120k-$290kDetected 41 days ago
PythonGoRubyDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLMySQLAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesRecruitingMentoring
About the role
- 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 welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, pregnancy status, and veteran status.
Responsibilities
- 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 have strong experience building, operating, or maintaining large-scale Postgres deployments in production.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.
- Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services.
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
- Experience building or operating a database-as-a-service or managed database platform.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Go, with experience in other languages like Ruby, Python etc
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code.
Skills
- PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space.
Compensation
- $120,000 - $290,000 USD
Company info
- You will work directly with customers to understand their workloads and translate real-world needs into platform improvements.
Visa & Work Authorization
- applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, pregnancy status, and veteran status
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