# Solutions Engineer

**Company:** [PlanetScale](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/planetscale)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $160k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** MySQL, Postgres, Vitess, AWS, GCP, Azure, Oci, Python, Go, JavaScript, Database Migration, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Aws Dms
**Posted:** 2026-07-30

> 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.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Partner with Sales and Customer Engineering throughout the pre-sales and post-sales journey as the technical expert helping customers solve challenging database problems.
- Lead technical discovery to match customers’ business and technical objectives with PlanetScale’s offerings.
- Design and execute proof-of-value timelines that deliver agreed-upon business outcomes and success criteria.
- Design database migration strategies and work hands-on with customers to execute migrations to PlanetScale’s PostgreSQL and Vitess platforms.
- Assess workloads, analyze performance requirements, and recommend architecture, sizing, and optimization strategies.
- Build tools, scripts, and automation that accelerate migrations and improve customer onboarding.
- Create educational content, including documentation, guides, blog posts, workshops, and videos.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to advocate for customer needs and shape the platform.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on production experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, including operations, performance tuning, and troubleshooting; **or** 5+ years of experience supporting customers with MySQL or PostgreSQL workloads and advising on these areas.
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or OCI.
- Proven success in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or Technical Account Manager.
- Strong understanding of database migration strategies and tooling.
- Experience evaluating database solutions, including architecture reviews, capacity planning, and performance analysis.
- Ability to write scripts and tools in Python, Go, or JavaScript.
- Experience creating technical content such as documentation, tutorials, or blog posts.
- Deep expertise in database systems, including replication, high availability, sharding, performance tuning, and migration strategies.
- Ability to present architecture designs to executives and write scripts to automate migration tasks.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into business value for diverse audiences.
- Ability to manage multiple engagements independently.
- Willingness to travel occasionally, less than 20%.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) or logical replication tools.
- Knowledge of Vitess, database sharding, or distributed database systems.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in database communities.
- Public speaking experience at conferences or meetups.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary range: **$160,000–$250,000 USD**.
- Total compensation may include base salary, variable compensation where appropriate, benefits, and equity.

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