Software Engineer - Internal Tools
PlanetScale·San Francisco Office·Posted 31 August 2026
About the 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 that 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. We're hiring a software engineer to build the internal tools that run PlanetScale. You'll automate the manual work that slows a growing company down: incident response, on-call, support workflows, onboarding, and the dozens of other small things that take up our time. Location This role is in-office only at our San Francisco headquarters. You must already live in the SF Bay Area and be able to work from the office most days. This is not a remote role. We do not offer relocation. We do not sponsor visas. If you need to relocate, work remotely, or need visa sponsorship, please do not apply. What You'll Do Build AI-enabled tools and agents that automate manual work across engineering, support, and operations Write bots and integrations for Slack, PagerDuty,…
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