# Software Engineer, Backend (Python) at Plane

- Company: Plane
- What the company does: Plane is the payroll and HR platform your agents and tools connect to. Easily hire, pay, and onboard employees and contractors in the U.S. and worldwide. Open API, MCP, and CLI so you can ditch the busywork. For good. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://plane.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/plane/fde252af-e3fe-4884-97a1-e7894179405f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/plane-software-engineer-backend-python/

## About the role

Plane keeps live work state in sync across thousands of workspaces, including self-hosted clusters we will never see, and that machinery now has to carry agents that read and change state at machine speed. You will work across the Django services behind projects, cycles, issues, and permissions, the event streams and change data capture that push state out to every client, and the caching and query paths that keep a large workspace fast.

Tags: Engineering