Software Engineer - Neki Orchestration

PlanetScale
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 120,000 - 290,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Distributed systems","Go","Kubernetes","PostgreSQL","Ruby","Python","Cloud platforms","Open source"]

Design and build the control plane to provision, scale, and heal Neki clusters; create high-availability and data-protection solutions; develop tooling for database operations, backups, restores, and migrations; collaborate with customers to translate workloads into platform improvements.

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PlanetScale
3 months ago

Software Engineer - Neki Orchestration

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Job Summary

Design and build the control plane to provision, scale, and heal Neki clusters; create high-availability and data-protection solutions; develop tooling for database operations, backups, restores, and migrations; collaborate with customers to translate workloads into platform improvements.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Neki clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime.
  • •Build and maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions that keep customer databases safe through infrastructure failures.
  • •Build tooling and automation for database operations, backup, restore, and migration workflows - and participate in an on-call rotation.
  • •Work directly with customers to understand their workloads and translate real-world needs into platform improvements.
  • •Collaborate with the team to mentor engineers and communicate complex technical tradeoffs clearly.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 120,000 - 290,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •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 etc
  • •Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault-tolerant services
  • •Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized applications
  • •Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale
Experience:5+ yearsPostgreSQLDatabasesDistributed systemsCloudGo
Skills:Distributed systemsGoKubernetesPostgreSQLRubyPythonCloud platformsOpen source
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoRubyPythonKubernetesPostgreSQLVitessNekiCloud

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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