Software Engineer - Platform
PlanetScale · Remote (United States) · Engineering
About this role
PlanetScale is hiring a mid-level Platform Engineer in the software engineering function as a remote position. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, AWS, GCP and roughly 5+ years of relevant work. Compensation is listed at $120,000–$290,000 per year.
- Role
- Platform Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Remote (United States)
- Work mode
- Remote
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Department
- Engineering
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Job description
from PlanetScale careersPlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both Postgres and Vitess clusters. Vitess, an open-source database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL, enables businesses to efficiently handle large-scale data workloads — without sacrificing developer experience.
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?
- You will 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.
- You will collaborate with a team of expert engineers to solve complex distributed systems challenges.
- You will work independently to solve engineering and business problems with little direction and high autonomy.
- You will work directly with customers to understand their needs and translate them into robust technical solutions.
These attributes best describe you…
- You are passionate about building high-quality, scalable systems and take pride in writing clean, maintainable code.
- You have strong experience with distributed systems, databases, and performance optimization.
- You are comfortable working with large codebases and can quickly understand and contribute to complex systems.