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Software Engineer - Neki Orchestration at PlanetScale. . Location: San Francisco Bay Area or Remote. PlanetScale 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.. . Our 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.. . What's the job to be done?. . . You will design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Neki clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime.. . You will build and maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions that keep customer databases safe through infrastructure failures.. . You will build tooling and automation for database operations, backup, restore, and migration workflows - and participate in an on-call rotation.. . You will work directly with customers to understand their workloads and translate real-world needs into platform improvements.. . . These attributes best describe you…. . . You have strong experience building, operating, or maintaining large-scale Postgres deployments in production.. . You have an excellent understanding of low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, and performance.. . You have strong fundamental computer science skills and can reason about distributed, fault-tolerant systems.. . You thrive in a collaborative environment, enjoy mentoring other engineers, and communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly.. . You are self-motivated and can work independently with minimal guidance while making sound technical decisions.. . . What you will need. . . 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.. . Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications.. . Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.. . . What else will help you be successful. . . Experience building or operating a database-as-a-service or managed database platform.. . Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code.. . Contributions to open-source projects, especially in the Postgres or database infrastructure space.. . Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams.. . Previous experience at a high-growth technology company.. . . Why PlanetScale. . We'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.. . At PlanetScale we believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive no matter the location. Our mission is to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company. We strive to build an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are a candidate or an employee. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, pregnancy status, and veteran status.. . If you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!. . Total Compensation and Pay Transparency. . An employee's total compensation consists of base salary + variable comp where appropriate + benefits + equity. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to answer any further questions when we engage with you to begin the interview process.. . Base salary range: $120,000 - $290,000 USD.