Software Engineer - Internal Tools

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, 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 to end: design, build, ship, support

For example, you might:

- Automate our incident response process

- Build automations for customer support

- Build internal dashboards that measure our service quality

What We're Looking For

Required:

- 0-2 years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent project or internship work

- Solid fundamentals in at least one of TypeScript, Ruby, or Go

- Comfortable building with AI coding tools and LLM APIs. This role is AI-enabled work, not just AI-assisted

- Comfort writing scripts, small services, or automations that solve a real problem

- Clear written communication

- Already based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We do not relocate for this role.

- In-office at our San Francisco headquarters most days. This is not remote.

- Authorized to work in the US without sponsorship. We cannot sponsor visas.

Nice to Have:

- Experience with Slack's API, GitHub Actions, or similar automation platforms

- Exposure to Terraform or Kubernetes

- A side project, bot, or tool you built to automate something in your own life