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Planet ScaleEngineering

Software Engineer - Sharded Postgres (Neki)

San Francisco Bay Area or Remoteremotemid$120K$290K

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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, 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, and we're looking for Software Engineers to come help build it from scratch. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our core engineering team and help us build the next generation of database infrastructure. What's the job to be done?…

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reqspace match rubric

Five dimensions, recruiter-grade. Upload your resume and we'll generate a written explanation of where you fit and where the gaps are.

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Skills match

For this role: python, go, c++, postgres, postgresql…

2

Level fit

This role is mid-level. We check your trajectory against it.

3

Domain experience

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4

Recency

A skill you used last quarter weighs more than one from five years ago. We grade on recency, not lifetime.

5

Location fit

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