# Software Engineer - Internal Tools at PlanetScale

- Company: PlanetScale
- What the company does: PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres. Backed by Insight, Kleiner Perkins and a16z.
- Company website: https://www.planetscale.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco Office
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $120K to $160K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4389100009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/planetscale-software-engineer-internal-tools/

## 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

Tags: Engineering