# Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres 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: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $120K to $290K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4251150009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/planetscale-software-engineer-planetscale-postgres/

## About the role

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 Postgres engineering team and help us build a world-class managed Postgres offering.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production
- Strong proficiency in Go, with experience in other languages like Ruby, Python, Zig or Rust
- Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale

Tags: Engineering