Jobgether
Software Engineer - PlanetScale Vitess
TLDR
Back-end engineer building large-scale Vitess-based distributed database infrastructure, delivering high performance, reliability, and scalability at scale.
Accountabilities:
- Design and build core systems powering a large-scale database platform, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability under heavy query loads.
- Contribute to the development and evolution of distributed systems based on Vitess and related database infrastructure components.
- Collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to solve complex distributed systems and database engineering challenges.
- Work independently with high autonomy to analyze technical and business problems and deliver robust engineering solutions.
- Engage with customers to understand real-world use cases and translate them into scalable, production-grade technical implementations.
- Maintain, debug, and optimize large and complex codebases, ensuring system stability and performance at scale.
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with a strong focus on distributed systems or infrastructure engineering.
- Strong proficiency in Go, with additional experience in languages such as Python, Java, or C++.
- Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly MySQL, including performance tuning and query optimization concepts.
- Experience working with Kubernetes and containerized cloud-native environments.
- Proven ability to design, build, and operate distributed systems at scale in production environments.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across complex, multi-system architectures.
- Ability to work independently with minimal guidance while making sound technical decisions.
- Strong communication skills and experience collaborating in high-performance engineering teams.
- Nice-to-have: exposure to database internals, distributed consensus systems, observability tools, or contributions to open-source infrastructure projects.
- Competitive compensation package including base salary and equity participation.
- Opportunity to work on globally scaled infrastructure powering high-traffic applications.
- Fully remote-friendly environment with flexibility in work location.
- High ownership role within a small, elite engineering team focused on technical excellence.
- Exposure to cutting-edge distributed systems and database technologies (including Vitess).
- Inclusive, engineering-driven culture emphasizing autonomy, learning, and impact.
- Opportunity to collaborate with and learn from world-class infrastructure engineers.
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How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
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Benefits
Equity Compensation
Competitive compensation package including base salary and equity participation.
Remote-Friendly
Fully remote-friendly environment with flexibility in work location.
Jobgether runs the largest remote job platform, effectively linking job seekers with over 200,000 flexible and remote opportunities that match their unique skills and preferences. Our focus is on enhancing the hiring process, ensuring efficiency while prioritizing the candidate experience, particularly in the growing health and wellness sector.
- Founded
- Founded 2020
- Employees
- 11-50 employees
- Industry
- Professional Services
Software Engineer