# PlanetScale

> Scalable cloud databases for Postgres and MySQL (Vitess)

**Website:** https://planetscale.com
**LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/planetscale
**Headquarters:** San Francisco, California
**Locations:** San Francisco, CA
**Size:** 51-200
**Founded:** 2018
**Industry:** cloud infrastructure
**Funding:** Series C
**Work type:** remote
**Tech stack:** Go, Postgres, Python, AWS, GCP, MySQL, Azure, Kubernetes, C++, Ruby, Java, Rust
**Benefits:** Unlimited PTO, Health insurance

PlanetScale provides cloud-native, highly scalable databases powered by Vitess for MySQL sharding and Postgres, using NVMe for unlimited IOPS. They serve engineering teams at companies like Slack, GitHub, and Cash App with features like branching, deploy requests, and non-blocking schema changes. This enables reliable, performant database operations at massive scale without operational overhead.

## Hiring in

- [Backend Engineering (4)](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/planetscale/jobs/backend-engineering)
- [Developer Relations (1)](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/planetscale/jobs/developer-relations)
- [Security Engineering (1)](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/planetscale/jobs/security-engineering)

## Open roles (7)

- [Field Marketing Coordinator](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/a8a93a62-9ba0-4bed-a3a4-4d98dac7e6c1) - San Francisco, CA
- [Software Engineer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/6c8e0e3c-6d87-4a59-bcf0-481a413ced59) - Remote
- [Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/1ff3b196-4c85-4823-879a-44a0a652eb01) - Remote
- [Software Engineer - Insights](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/69ce6492-9a12-487c-9200-ec2e1a79da1e) - San Francisco, CA
- [Software Engineer - Sharded Postgres (Neki)](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/77d9144d-679c-46c1-baf1-3b6298e48f65) - San Francisco, CA
- [Software Engineer - Information Security](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/38729686-e11f-47de-b6d1-d949c982af7b) - Remote
- [Developer Educator](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/bdbae8ed-3ca1-4264-860f-f026d3c05c42) - Remote

**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/companies/planetscale