JOB DESCRIPTION:
\nPlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both PostgresQL and Vitess clusters. Vitess is an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads , without sacrificing developer experience. We're bringing the same scaling power to PostgreSQL with Neki, our sharded PostgreSQL product, and we're looking for Software Engineers to come help orchestrate Neki.
\nOur customers entrust us with their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Neki team to bring Neki to the cloud.
\nWe're redefining how high-growth companies manage data at scale,and we work with some of the most exciting brands in gaming, consumer tech, and B2B SaaS. As a Software Engineer, you'll be at the core of building the platform that powers world-class apps used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide. PlanetScale is a profitable company with a philosophy centered around building small teams of p99 individuals and is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America.
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\nYou will be working on a large, established codebase with a deep understanding of PostgreSQL internals, including MVCC, query planner/executor, WAL, vacuum, replication, and memory contexts. You will also have experience with Git and the PostgreSQL patch workflow, and be comfortable in Linux/BSD development environments.
\nYou will have the opportunity to work on diverse problems across the stack, collaborate effectively with engineers in different domains, and leverage AI tools to move faster. You will make pragmatic technical decisions and work independently with minimal direction.
\nPlanetScale is redefining how high-growth companies manage data at scale, and you will be at the core of building the platform that powers world-class apps used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
","enriched_at":1779519764214},{"id":"job_c7b57a6a-5dc","title":"Software Engineer - Surfaces","source_url":"https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4091110009","location":"San Francisco Bay Area or Remote","job_type":"full-time","experience_level":"senior","work_arrangement":"remote","category":"Engineering","description":"We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Surfaces team. The Surfaces team is responsible for all user-facing UIs, CLIs and APIs. We build and maintain the PlanetScale dashboard, APIs and billing systems every PlanetScale user relies on to launch and manage their databases.
\nYou will work on app.planetscale.com, the central control plane for every PlanetScale database, responsible for the creation and management of some of the world's most important Vitess and Postgres databases. You will get to work across languages. Our CLI is written in Go, the dashboard is React + TypeScript, and the backend API is Ruby on Rails. You will get the opportunity to learn and deeply understand Vitess and Postgres.
\nWorking with our design team, you will apply your skills and taste to solve database DX challenges. Building truly the best database for developers. You will build, document, and publish RESTful APIs used by both end users and our user-facing dashboard. You will work on internal admin tools (chatbots, admin panels) to assist our engineers and support teams to better solve customer problems. You will get to work on bringing PlanetScale to where our users are , whether that's via an API, Terraform provider, or MCP server.
\nYou will work independently to solve engineering and business problems with little direction and high autonomy.
","enriched_at":1779429991542},{"id":"job_6ace0597-bd0","title":"Software Engineer - Sharded Postgres (Neki)","source_url":"https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4009936009","location":"San Francisco Bay Area or Remote","job_type":"full-time","experience_level":"senior","work_arrangement":"remote","category":"Engineering","description":"We're growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. Our platform offers both PostgresQL and Vitess clusters. Vitess is an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enabling businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads without sacrificing developer experience. We're bringing the same scaling power to PostgreSQL with Neki, our sharded PostgreSQL product.
\nWe're looking for a Software Engineer to join our core engineering team and help us build the next generation of database infrastructure. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher.
\nWe're looking for a Software Engineer to join our core engineering team and help us build the next generation of database infrastructure.
\nAs a Software Engineer at PlanetScale, you will design and build critical systems that power our database platform, serving millions of queries per second for some of the world's largest applications. You will collaborate with a team of expert engineers to solve complex distributed systems challenges. You will work independently to solve engineering and business problems with little direction and high autonomy. You will work directly with customers to understand their needs and translate them into robust technical solutions.
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\nWe're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Insights team to help build our customer-facing database observability product. Insights helps developers understand their database performance and provides visibility into query patterns, performance metrics, and database health across both Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL systems.
\nYou will instrument Vitess, MySQL, and PostgreSQL to emit performance data, design, implement, and maintain our data collection pipeline, create intuitive dashboards and visualizations that surface actionable database insights, develop APIs and integrations that expose insights data to customers, collaborate with other teams to define the next generation of database observability features, build tools for query analysis, performance profiling, and anomaly detection, and own features end-to-end, from initial design through production deployment and monitoring.
\nYou will partner with customers and support teams to understand real-world observability challenges and work in a self-directed environment. You will also have the opportunity to wear many hats and work on diverse problems across the stack.
\nAs a member of our team, you will be at the core of building the platform that powers world-class apps used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide. PlanetScale is a profitable company with a philosophy centered around building small teams of p99 individuals and is recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in America.
","enriched_at":1779339840220},{"id":"job_8c8a9cf6-370","title":"Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres","source_url":"https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4251150009","location":"San Francisco Bay Area or Remote","job_type":"full-time","experience_level":"senior","work_arrangement":"remote","category":"Engineering","description":"At PlanetScale, we're growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. Our platform delivers a fully managed, multi-cloud Postgres service designed for the most demanding production workloads. We handle the complexity of provisioning, scaling, replication, and failover - so engineering teams can focus on building their products.
\nOur customers entrust us with their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Postgres engineering team and help us build a world-class managed Postgres offering.
\nWe're redefining how high-growth companies manage data at scale,and we work with some of the most exciting brands in gaming, consumer tech, and B2B SaaS. As a Software Engineer, you'll be at the core of building the platform that powers world-class apps used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide. PlanetScale is a profitable company with a philosophy centered around building small teams of p99 individuals and is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America.
","enriched_at":1779253384400},{"id":"job_5700317e-599","title":"Software Engineer - Information Security","source_url":"https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4009938009","location":"San Francisco Bay Area or Remote","job_type":"full-time","experience_level":"senior","work_arrangement":"remote","category":"Engineering","description":"We're looking for a Software Engineer: Information Security to join our team and help us build security into every layer of our infrastructure while maintaining our exceptional developer experience.
\nAs a Software Engineer: Information Security, you will design and implement security controls for PlanetScale's cloud-native database platform, protecting millions of queries per second for some of the world's largest applications.
\nYou will collaborate with engineering teams to conduct security reviews, threat modeling, and provide secure coding guidance across our distributed systems.
\nA special focus for this role is on proactive red teaming and testing - you will consistently try to break into the PlanetScale platform as an attacker would, and help patch what you find.
\nYou will evaluate, procure, and implement proactive security tools and technologies to strengthen our security posture.
\nYou will work closely with our compliance team to ensure adherence to SOC 2, PCI DSS, and other security frameworks.
\nYou will build security automation and tooling to scale security practices across the engineering organization.
\nYou will respond to security incidents and conduct post-incident reviews to improve our security resilience.
\nThe ideal candidate will have strong experience with cloud security, application security, and securing distributed database systems.
\nThey will be able to communicate complex security concepts clearly to engineering teams and translate business requirements into technical security solutions.
\nThe candidate will thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy working across teams to embed security into the development lifecycle.
\nThey will have excellent problem-solving skills and be able to balance security requirements with developer productivity.
\nThe candidate will be self-motivated and able to work independently while making sound security and technical decisions.
\nRequired skills include:
\nPreferred skills include:
\nWe're looking for a Developer Educator who is excited about bringing database education to new heights, creating unique and engaging content, helping customers, and building the PlanetScale engineering community at conferences, events, and online.
\nAs a Developer Educator, you will create technical content to help customers and engineers at-large learn how Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, Neki, and the PlanetScale ecosystem works. You will also speak at conferences and events, representing PlanetScale in the database and engineering community. Additionally, you will create and refine product documentation, host livestreams and webinars to engage with and educate our community, and travel to connect with developers at events worldwide.
\nThe ideal candidate is someone who teaches complex technical concepts in accessible ways, loves learning about and explaining full-stack application development, databases, and compute infrastructure, and is a natural communicator who can adapt their message for different audiences. They should thrive in community settings and enjoy building relationships with developers, have excellent writing skills, and be self-motivated and able to manage multiple projects independently.
\nWhat you will need includes 2+ years of experience in engineering, solution architecture, technical education, or developer relations, a strong understanding of relational databases (Postgres or MySQL), proven ability to create technical content, experience speaking at conferences or hosting technical presentations and events, and a willingness to travel between 20-50% of the time.
\nExperience with Vitess or other distributed database technologies, knowledge of distributed systems and database scaling challenges, and previous experience at a database or infrastructure company are also desirable.
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