Senior Postgres Platform Engineer (Go)

PlanetScale

United States

Remote

USD 120,000 - 290,000

Full time

14 days+
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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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