Senior Go Engineer — Neki Orchestration / Cloud Scale

PlanetScale; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

PlanetScale is seeking a Software Engineer to work on Neki, a cloud-native solution for database management. Your role will involve designing and building control planes, ensuring high availability, and collaborating with customers to understand their needs. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in software engineering, particularly in distributed systems, and be proficient in Go.

This position offers a competitive salary range of $120,000 - $290,000 USD and is aimed at individuals looking to thrive in a diverse, equitable environment.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the control plane for Neki clusters.
• Build and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Work directly with customers to understand workloads.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Go programming

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Containerized applications

Job description

PlanetScale is seeking a Software Engineer to work on Neki, a cloud-native solution for database management. Your role will involve designing and building control planes, ensuring high availability, and collaborating with customers to understand their needs. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in software engineering, particularly in distributed systems, and be proficient in Go.

This position offers a competitive salary range of $120,000 - $290,000 USD and is aimed at individuals looking to thrive in a diverse, equitable environment.