Senior Postgres Platform Engineer (Go, Kubernetes)

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

Job summary

PlanetScale in the United States is seeking a Software Engineer for the Postgres engineering team. You will design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Postgres clusters with minimal downtime, and contribute to high availability and disaster recovery for large-scale workloads. You should have 5+ years building distributed systems and strong Go skills, plus Kubernetes experience. This role supports remote work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.
• Strong proficiency in Go, with experience in Ruby, Python, Zig or Rust.
• Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Postgres clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime.
• Build and maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions for customer databases.
• Tune Postgres to operate at scale for large workloads.
• Build tooling and automation for database operations, backup, restore, and migration workflows, and participate in on-call rotation.
• Work directly with customers to translate workloads into platform improvements.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Multi-threading

Team collaboration

On-call experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Ruby

Python

Rust

Zig

Terraform

Job description

PlanetScale in the United States is seeking a Software Engineer for the Postgres engineering team. You will design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Postgres clusters with minimal downtime, and contribute to high availability and disaster recovery for large-scale workloads. You should have 5+ years building distributed systems and strong Go skills, plus Kubernetes experience. This role supports remote work.