PlanetScale

Design and evolve PlanetScale’s visual identity across web, campaigns, events, print, and merchandise, translating complex database concepts into engaging visual experiences. The role requires a versatile portfolio, strong design fundamentals, proficiency with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, and comfort using AI in the design workflow.

Build PlanetScale’s AI-native outbound motion by researching infrastructure prospects, creating campaigns, engaging technical buyers, and generating qualified pipeline. Requires at least one year of quota-carrying SDR or BDR experience and strong curiosity about databases and infrastructure.

Supports developers and businesses using PlanetScale by troubleshooting production application and database issues, improving documentation, and translating recurring customer pain into product and process improvements. Requires SQL knowledge, programming experience, and strong technical communication.

Build AI-enabled internal tools, automations, integrations, and dashboards that streamline incident response, support, and engineering operations. The role suits an early-career software engineer comfortable with TypeScript, Ruby, or Go, LLM APIs, and in-office collaboration in San Francisco.

Supports enterprise customers running PlanetScale database platforms by troubleshooting production issues, advising on database performance, and escalating product gaps. The role requires strong customer communication, database internals expertise, Kubernetes knowledge, and comfort investigating unfamiliar infrastructure code.

Builds and operates scalable backend database infrastructure for PlanetScale’s Vitess platform, solving distributed-systems and performance challenges at scale. Requires 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, strong Go proficiency, and expertise with databases and Kubernetes.

Own PlanetScale's end-to-end events strategy and hands-on execution for developer and technical audiences, including conferences, owned experiences, executive events, and innovative formats. Drive measurable impact on acquisition, adoption, community, and brand while managing budget, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders in a high-IC hybrid role.

Partners with sales and customers to deliver database architecture guidance, migrations, performance optimization, and technical enablement across PlanetScale’s PostgreSQL and Vitess platforms. Requires 5+ years supporting production database workloads or customers, cloud experience, scripting ability, and strong customer-facing communication.

Design and build the control plane for provisioning, scaling, and healing Neki (sharded PostgreSQL) clusters. Requires 5+ years experience, strong Go proficiency, Kubernetes, and distributed systems expertise.

Design and build the control plane and tooling for a managed Postgres service, focusing on HA, DR, scaling, and automation for large-scale deployments. Requires 5+ years experience, strong Go skills, and deep Postgres/distributed systems knowledge.

Build customer-facing database observability product for Vitess/MySQL and PostgreSQL, including data collection pipelines, dashboards, query analysis, and performance profiling tools. Requires 5+ years experience and observability/monitoring background.

Software Engineer building PlanetScale's sharded PostgreSQL platform (Neki) from scratch. Focus on distributed systems, database engines, and high-scale query performance with strong Go and backend experience.

Creates technical content, documentation, and presentations on databases like Postgres, MySQL, and Vitess; speaks at conferences and hosts webinars to educate developers. Requires 2+ years in engineering/DevRel and strong communication skills, with 20-50% travel.