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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Planetscale Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $290,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Databases, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Memory Management, Fault Tolerance, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Open Source Technology, Ruby, Software Engineering, Multithreading, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-neki-orchestration-planetscale-9679516

## About the Role

* 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 reason about distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
 * You thrive in a collaborative environment, enjoy mentoring other engineers, and communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly.
 * You are self-motivated and can work independently with minimal guidance while making sound technical decisions., * 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.
 * Strong proficiency in Go, with experience in other languages like Ruby, Python etc
 * Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services.
 * Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications.
 * Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale., * Experience building or operating a database-as-a-service or managed database platform.
 * Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code.
 * Contributions to open-source projects, especially in the Postgres or database infrastructure space.
 * Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams.
 * Previous experience at a high-growth technology company.

## Description

* 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.


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