Software Engineer - Neki Orchestration

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

Department: Engineering