Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres
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PlanetScale seeks a remote Software Engineer to join its Postgres team, focusing on building the control plane for a fully managed, multi-cloud database service. The role requires designing systems for provisioning, scaling, and disaster recovery while ensuring high availability for demanding production workloads. Candidates need five or more years of experience in large-scale systems, strong proficiency in Go, and a solid understanding of operating systems and distributed computing. The position includes participating in on-call rotations and collaborating with customers to refine platform capabilities. The base salary range is $120,000 to $290,000 USD, with total compensation including variable pay, benefits, and equity.
Key details
- Requires five or more years of software engineering experience with large-scale production systems.
- Strong proficiency in Go is mandatory, with additional experience in Ruby, Python, Zig, or Rust preferred.
- Candidates must possess deep knowledge of low-level operating systems concepts and distributed fault-tolerant architectures.
- The role involves designing control plane components for provisioning, scaling, and healing Postgres clusters.
- Base salary ranges from $120,000 to $290,000 USD, excluding variable compensation, benefits, and equity.