Software Engineer - Neki Orchestration

Planet Scale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The Planet Scale platform offers both Postgre

SQL 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 Postgre

SQL with Neki, our sharded Postgre

SQL product, and we’re looking for Software Engineers to help orchestrate Neki.

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.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large‑scale systems in production.
• Strong proficiency in Go, with experience in other languages such as 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.

• 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.

Total Compensation and Pay Transparency:
An employee’s total compensation consists of base salary + variable comp where appropriate + benefits + equity.

Base salary range: $120,000 - $290,000 USD.

We are committed to 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 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.

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