Software Engineer - PlanetScale Vitess

PlanetScale
EMEA
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 120,000 - 290,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Go","Python","Java","C++","MySQL","Kubernetes","Distributed systems","Cloud platforms"]

Design and build critical backend systems for PlanetScale’s Vitess/Postgres-based database platform, solving distributed systems challenges at scale. Collaborate with a tight engineering team, mentor juniors, own components end-to-end, and translate customer needs into robust technical solutions while maintaining high autonomy across a complex codebase.

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PlanetScale
PlanetScale
1 year ago

Software Engineer - PlanetScale Vitess

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Job Summary

Design and build critical backend systems for PlanetScale’s Vitess/Postgres-based database platform, solving distributed systems challenges at scale. Collaborate with a tight engineering team, mentor juniors, own components end-to-end, and translate customer needs into robust technical solutions while maintaining high autonomy across a complex codebase.
Location: EMEA
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build critical systems that power PlanetScale's database platform, serving millions of queries per second for some of the world’s largest applications.
  • •Collaborate with a team of expert engineers to solve complex distributed systems challenges.
  • •Work independently to solve engineering and business problems with little direction and high autonomy.
  • •Work directly with customers to understand their needs and translate them into robust technical solutions.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 120,000 - 290,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on backend systems
  • •Strong proficiency in Go, with experience in other languages like Python, Java, or C++
  • •Experience with MySQL or other relational databases
  • •Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications
  • •Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale
Experience:5+ yearsDistributed systemsDatabasesBackend
Skills:GoPythonJavaC++MySQLKubernetesDistributed systemsCloud platforms
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoPythonJavaC++MySQLKubernetesDockerAWSGCPAzure

Company Brief

PlanetScale
Provides a serverless, MySQL-compatible distributed database platform built on Vitess for developers and enterprises, enabling scalable, resilient, and cloud-native database operations with features like branching, zero-downtime schema changes, and multi-region deployment.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2018
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