PlanetScale jobs

Software Engineer role on PlanetScale's Neki Orchestration team designing and building the control plane for provisioning, scaling, and managing sharded PostgreSQL clusters. Requires 5+ years experience with large-scale Postgres, Go proficiency, Kubernetes, and distributed systems expertise. Responsibilities include database operations automation, high availability/disaster recovery solutions, and on-call participation. Location listed as San Francisco Bay Area with remote option.

PostgreSQL Core Engineer at PlanetScale. Specialized database engine role focused on contributing upstream to PostgreSQL core, maintaining Postgres extensions (open-source and proprietary), and collaborating with the PostgreSQL community. Requires strong C programming skills, deep knowledge of PostgreSQL internals (MVCC, query planner, WAL, replication), demonstrated open-source contributions, and comfort with Linux/BSD development. Location is either San Francisco Bay Area or remote. This is a niche, specialized engineering role requiring C expertise rather than full-stack/backend generalist work.

PlanetScale is hiring a Software Engineer for its Postgres engineering team to build the control plane and operational infrastructure for its managed Postgres platform. You'll design and build systems for provisioning, scaling, and healing Postgres clusters; develop high availability and disaster recovery solutions; tune Postgres for massive production workloads; and work directly with customers to shape platform improvements. You need 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong Postgres production knowledge, proficiency in Go, expertise in distributed fault-tolerant systems, and working knowledge of Kubernetes—plus solid OS fundamentals (threading, memory, networking, storage). PlanetScale is a profitable, fast-growing company that's profitable and reinventing managed databases with customers in gaming, fintech, and SaaS; the role includes on-call responsibilities. Base salary ranges from $120K–$290K depending on experience.

PlanetScale, a profitable database platform company, is hiring a Software Engineer for its Insights team to build customer-facing observability tooling for both Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. You'll instrument databases to emit performance data, design and maintain data collection pipelines, create dashboards and visualizations, develop customer-facing APIs, and own features end-to-end from design through production monitoring. The role requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, proven track record building observability/monitoring products, expertise with distributed systems and time-series data, and backend development skills (Go, Rust, Python, Ruby, or similar); knowledge of ClickHouse, Prometheus, Kafka, or database internals is a plus. PlanetScale is a fast-growing, profitable company working with major brands in gaming and SaaS, offering a $120k–$290k base salary range plus variable comp and equity, with a commitment to remote-friendly work and inclusive hiring. This role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, cross-stack flexibility, and shipping quickly in a small, high-caliber team environment.

PlanetScale, a profitable database infrastructure company, is hiring a Software Engineer to join its core engineering team building Neki, a sharded PostgreSQL product designed to bring horizontal scaling capabilities to PostgreSQL. You'll design and build critical distributed systems powering PlanetScale's platform, collaborating with expert engineers on complex technical challenges while working directly with customers to understand and solve their data infrastructure needs. The role requires 5+ years of backend systems experience with strong Go proficiency, proven expertise developing (not just operating) PostgreSQL or MySQL, and demonstrated experience building and operating distributed systems at scale. Nice-to-haves include database internals knowledge, open-source contributions in infrastructure/databases, cloud platform experience, and background at high-growth tech companies. PlanetScale is a fast-growing, profitable company serving major brands in gaming and SaaS, with a philosophy centered on small teams of top talent; compensation ranges from $120K–$290K base plus variable comp and equity, with full flexibility on location.

PlanetScale, a profitable and rapidly growing database infrastructure company, is hiring a Software Engineer for its core engineering team to build critical systems powering their Postgres and Vitess platform. You'll design distributed systems handling millions of queries per second, collaborate with expert engineers on complex scaling challenges, and work directly with customers to translate their needs into technical solutions, with high autonomy and minimal direction. Required qualifications include 5+ years of backend software engineering, strong Go proficiency (plus Python, Java, or C++), experience with MySQL/relational databases, Kubernetes, and distributed systems at scale. Nice-to-haves include database internals expertise, open-source contributions, cloud platform experience, and background at high-growth tech companies. PlanetScale works with major brands in gaming and SaaS, operates profitably as a p99-focused company, and offers a base salary range of $120k–$290k USD plus equity and benefits with location flexibility.