Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
You'll design and build the control plane for a **fully managed Postgres service** at PlanetScale, enabling engineering teams to focus on their products. You'll **tune Postgres at scale** and build high availability, disaster recovery, and automation solutions for demanding production workloads.
Hybrid|Senior|Full-time|Software
Software Engineer - Neki Orchestration
San Francisco, California, United States
You'll join the Neki team to **bring sharded PostgreSQL to the cloud** by designing and building the **control plane** that provisions, scales, and heals clusters. This role directly impacts customer database reliability at scale.
Remote|Senior|Full-time|Software
You'll **partner with Sales and Customer Engineering** to guide customers through database migrations onto the PlanetScale platform. Your core impact is designing migration strategies, executing proofs of value, and advocating for customer needs. You'll also create educational content and build automation tools to accelerate onboarding.
Remote|Senior|Full-time|Software
You'll design and build critical systems that power PlanetScale's 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'll also work directly with customers to understand their needs and translate them into robust technical solutions.
Remote|Senior|Full-time|Software
Software Engineer - Information Security
You'll design and implement security controls for **PlanetScale's cloud-native database platform**, protecting millions of queries per second. You'll collaborate with engineering teams on **security reviews and threat modeling** to embed security across distributed systems. A special focus is on **proactive red teaming** to continuously test and improve defenses.
Software Engineer - Insights
You'll join PlanetScale's Insights team to build our customer-facing database observability product. You'll instrument Vitess, MySQL, and PostgreSQL to emit **performance data** and create intuitive dashboards that surface actionable insights. You'll own features end-to-end, from design through production deployment.
Remote|Senior|Full-time|Software
Software Engineer - Platform
You'll design and build critical systems powering PlanetScale's database platform, serving **millions of queries per second** for world-class apps. You'll collaborate with expert engineers on **distributed systems challenges** and work directly with customers. This role offers high autonomy and a chance to shape the **next generation of database infrastructure**.
Remote|Senior|Full-time|Software
Software Engineer - Postgres Internals
You'll contribute upstream to the **PostgreSQL core engine** and maintain extensions that power our Postgres offering. Your patches and reviews will improve performance, features, and security for a platform serving hundreds of millions of users. This role offers the chance to shape the evolution of PostgreSQL through the pgsql-hackers mailing list and Commitfest process.
Remote|Senior|Full-time|Software
You'll join the **Surfaces team** to build and maintain the user-facing UI, CLI, and APIs for **PlanetScale's database platform**. Your work directly impacts how developers create and manage critical Vitess and Postgres databases. You'll collaborate with design to solve database developer experience challenges.
Remote|Senior|Full-time|Software
Software Engineer - Sharded Postgres
You'll work on building **Neki**, our sharded PostgreSQL product, from scratch. You'll design and build critical systems that power PlanetScale's database platform, serving millions of queries per second for some of the world's largest applications. This role offers the chance to solve complex distributed systems challenges with a team of expert engineers.
Remote|Senior|Full-time|Software
Enterprise Support Engineer
You'll handle support requests from enterprise customers on the PlanetScale platform, becoming a customer-facing subject-matter expert. You'll identify product gaps and collaborate with Engineering and Sales teams. This role includes on-call rotation for high-priority issues.
Remote|Mid|Full-time|Software
You'll create technical content and speak at conferences to educate developers on **PlanetScale's database platform**. Your work will directly empower engineers to manage data at scale with **Postgres and Vitess+MySQL**. This role blends deep technical education with **community engagement** at events worldwide.
Remote|Mid|Full-time|Software