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Software Engineer - Internal Tools

PlanetScale · San Francisco Office · On-site

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About PlanetScale

PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres. Backed by Insight, Kleiner Perkins and a16z.

About the role

We're hiring a software engineer to build the internal tools that run PlanetScale. You'll automate the manual work that slows a growing company down: incident response, on-call, support workflows, onboarding, and the dozens of other small things that take up our time.

What they're looking for

  • 0-2 years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent project or internship work
  • Solid fundamentals in at least one of TypeScript, Ruby, or Go
  • Comfortable building with AI coding tools and LLM APIs. This role is AI-enabled work, not just AI-assisted
  • Comfort writing scripts, small services, or automations that solve a real problem
  • Clear written communication
  • Already based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We do not relocate for this role
More about this role

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 that 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.

We're hiring a software engineer to build the internal tools that run PlanetScale. You'll automate the manual work that slows a growing company down: incident response, on-call, support workflows, onboarding, and the dozens of other small things that take up our time.

This role is in-office only at our San Francisco headquarters. You must already live in the SF Bay Area and be able to work from the office most days.

This is not a remote role. We do not offer relocation. We do not sponsor visas.

If you need to relocate, work remotely, or need visa sponsorship, please do not apply.

  • Build AI-enabled tools and agents that automate manual work across engineering, support, and operations
  • Write bots and integrations for Slack, PagerDuty, and the other systems...

Read the full posting on PlanetScale's site ↗

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