Jobs at PlanetScale

Support PlanetScale customers and developers by troubleshooting production applications, databases, infrastructure, connectivity, queries, schema changes, and application behavior. Resolve issues across tickets, Slack, and public channels; create documentation and playbooks; identify recurring product friction; and collaborate with Engineering on improvements. The role requires strong technical debugging, SQL and database knowledge, programming literacy, customer communication, empathy, organization, and independent cross-functional execution.

Build internal tools, AI-enabled agents, bots, integrations, and dashboards that automate incident response, support, onboarding, and operational workflows. The engineer will integrate LLM APIs and AI coding tools, work with Slack and PagerDuty, ship rapid improvements, and own projects from design through ongoing support while collaborating with senior engineers and leadership.

Own PlanetScale's end-to-end events strategy and execution across developer experiences, conferences, dinners, meetups, and hybrid formats. Set creative standards, manage budget and vendors, build a global events calendar, drive measurable outcomes (developer acquisition, product adoption, pipeline), and operate as a hands-on individual contributor while growing the function.

The Developer Educator will create technical content, speak at events, enhance documentation, and engage the developer community through online platforms and conferences, requiring 20-50% travel.

Advise and handle enterprise customer support requests for PlanetScale platform, act as customer-facing SME, identify and escalate product gaps, collaborate with TAM/Engineering/Sales Engineering, and participate in on-call rotation for high-priority incidents.

Design and build scalable backend systems for PlanetScale's database platform (Vitess/Postgres), collaborate on distributed systems challenges, work autonomously and with customers, optimize performance, and mentor engineers while operating systems at production scale.

Design and build the control plane for Postgres clusters, ensure data protection, automate database operations, and collaborate with customers to enhance the platform.

The Software Engineer will design and build systems for sharded PostgreSQL, collaborate with a team to solve distributed systems challenges, and directly engage with customers to create technical solutions.

As a Software Engineer on the Insights team, you'll develop observability products and enhance database performance monitoring for clients using Vitess, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

The Solutions Engineer partners with Sales and Customer Engineering, guiding customers through database migrations and optimizing solutions. Responsibilities include technical discovery, designing migrations, assessing workloads, creating tools and documentation, and collaborating with teams for customer needs.

Design and build the Neki control plane to provision, scale, and heal sharded PostgreSQL clusters. Implement high-availability, disaster recovery, backup/restore, and migration tooling. Operate distributed, fault-tolerant services on Kubernetes, participate in on-call rotations, and work with customers to translate workloads into platform improvements.