# Software Engineer - Internal Tools at PlanetScale

- Company: PlanetScale
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Francisco Office
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: Backend
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Skills: Postgres, Vitess, MySQL, Neki, PostgreSQL
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4389100009

## Description

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, and the other systems we run the business on
• Build internal dashboards that give the team visibility into what's actually happening
• Integrate LLM APIs and AI coding tools directly into the internal systems you build
• Ship small, useful things fast. Iterate based on what people need
• Work directly with senior engineers and leadership to find friction and fix it
• Own your projects end

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