Senior Postgres Platform Engineer (Go)

PlanetScale; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

PlanetScale is seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our Postgres engineering team. You will design and build Postgres clusters, ensuring high availability and data protection. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience and strong proficiency in Go, with a background in distributed systems.

As part of our team, you'll help redefine how high-growth companies manage data at scale, contributing to our world-class managed Postgres offering.

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Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.
• Strong proficiency in Go, with experience in languages like Ruby, Python, Zig, or Rust.
• Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the control plane for Postgres clusters with minimal downtime.
• Build and maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions.
• Tune Postgres for large-scale workloads.

Skills

Go programming

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Fault-tolerant systems

Job description

PlanetScale is seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our Postgres engineering team. You will design and build Postgres clusters, ensuring high availability and data protection. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience and strong proficiency in Go, with a background in distributed systems.

As part of our team, you'll help redefine how high-growth companies manage data at scale, contributing to our world-class managed Postgres offering.

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