Software Engineer – Neki Orchestration

PlanetScale

Software Engineer responsible for developing Neki orchestration in a rapidly growing database platform. Focusing on control plane design, high availability, and customer collaboration.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $120,000 - $290,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoKubernetesPythonRuby

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will design and build the control plane that provisions, scales, and heals Neki clusters with minimal customer-visible downtime.
You will build and maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection solutions that keep customer databases safe through infrastructure failures.
You will build tooling and automation for database operations, backup, restore, and migration workflows - and participate in an on-call rotation.
You will work directly with customers to understand their workloads and translate real-world needs into platform improvements.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoRubyPythondistributed systemsfault-tolerant servicesKuberneteshigh availabilitydisaster recoverydata protectionautomation

Soft Skills

customer interactionproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationworkload understanding