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# Compliance Program Manager at PlanetScale

- **Company:** PlanetScale
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4473491009

## Job description

PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. Our database platform offers developers the fastest and most reliable Postgres and Vitess/MySQL databases, enabling businesses to efficiently handle data and workloads of all sizes.

PlanetScale is backed with over $100M in venture financing from top-tier VCs including a16z, Kleiner Perkins, SignalFire, and Insight Venture Partners. And we serve some of the most innovative companies in the world such as Block, Anysphere (Cursor), MyFitnessPal, Etsy, Kick, and thousands more. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn’t be higher.

We’re look for a Program Manager to oversee the FedRAMP certification process, as well as ongoing management and evolution of our existing compliance commitments, including SOC 1, SOC 2, and PCI DSS compliance. PlanetScale’s security and compliance team is responsible for our corporate information security program, with a goal to reduce risk across our systems, and to establish trust in our product offerings, features, and cloud services. Our work is focused on both our internal employees and our external customers and partners.

## What You’ll Do

- Take primary responsibility for overseeing PlanetScale’s FedRAMP readiness and ATO process from start to finish
- Act as the main compliance point of contact for all audits/assessments (i.e. SOC 1 & 2, PCI, FedRAMP) including audit plan preparation, review of documentation and evidence, evaluation of procedures, and external walkthroughs
- Establish, track, and report on key performance indicators and maturity metrics related to audit and compliance programs
- Work collaboratively across many internal teams (IT, Engineering, Legal, and People) to identify, manage, and implement solutions related to privacy, data protection risks, and compliance requirements to help meet our customer’s high expectations for data protection and privacy
- Leverage knowledge of industry standards and best practices to assess the current state of security and compliance risks, identify areas of exposure, and continuously address the gaps by proposing and implementing remediating controls

## What We’re Looking For

- 5+ years of experience contributing to and/or managing audits for a company in the technology sector, including demonstrable experience and subject matter expertise in FedRAMP.
- Experience with SOC 2 and the PCI Data Security Standard, either as a contributor or control owner.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills with the ability to communicate compliance and privacy related concepts to a broad range of technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfort and experience in working in a remote-first organizational, oftentimes asynchronously across many teams and timezones
- Demonstrated success and comfort working with external auditors, outside consultants, and legal affairs
- Experience contributing to and/or managing companywide risk assessments
- Experience and knowledge of cloud service providers and how to interact with them (AWS, Azure, GCP)

What else will help you be successful

- Experience working with databases, developer tools, infrastructure, or other technical products
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) preferred (CISA, or CISM)
- Working knowledge of SQL, preferably with experience in MySQL and/or PostgreSQL

## About You

You are highly organized and able to operate in a startup environment, comfortable with ambiguous or changing situations. You thrive in an environment of cross-department collaboration and feel comfortable working without organizational silos or barriers. You have a passion to lead programs that directly impact and enable our organization to drive higher levels of success. You understand that security and compliance programs are revenue generators and directly influence our ability to sell to and maintain our most demanding customers.

You are comfortable challenging the status quo while staying laser-focused on the task at hand: keeping PlanetScale secure and earning trust with our customers.

## Why PlanetScale

We’re redefining how high-growth companies manage data at scale — and we work with some of the most exciting brands in gaming, consumer tech, and B2B SaaS. As a Customer Support Engineer, you’ll be on the front lines helping developers and businesses solve real production problems, while also shaping the product, documentation, and support systems that make PlanetScale better for every customer.

PlanetScale is a profitable company with a philosophy centered around building small teams of p99 individuals and is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America.

At PlanetScale we believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive no matter the location. Our mission is to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company. We strive to build an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are a candidate or an employee. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, pregnancy status, and veteran status.

If you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate!

Total Compensation and Pay Transparency

An employee's total compensation consists of base salary + variable comp where appropriate + benefits + equity. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to answer any further questions when we engage with you to begin the interview process.

Base salary range: $175,000 - $200,000 USD

## About PlanetScale

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: PlanetScale is a fully managed relational database platform for Vitess and Postgres, bringing scale, performance, and reliability without sacrificing developer experience.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Jiten Vaidya, Sugu Sougoumarane, and the co-creators/maintainers of the Vitess open source project

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Cloud Database Infrastructure / Software Development
- Target customers: B2B; primarily mid-market to enterprise companies with high-scale database needs (also serves SMBs via self-serve plans starting at $5/month)
- Mission or purpose statement: To build the future of databases — the database their team wished they had at previous companies like YouTube, Facebook, GitHub, and Slack.

## Products & Services
- **[PlanetScale Vitess (MySQL)]**: A fully managed MySQL-compatible database powered by the Vitess open-source project. Offers horizontal sharding for unlimited scalability, zero-downtime schema changes, and high availability. Used by companies like Slack, HubSpot, and GitHub.
- **[PlanetScale Postgres]**: A fully managed PostgreSQL database built for performance and reliability. Features NVMe-backed performance ("PlanetScale Metal"), connection pooling, branch-per-environment workflows, and automated failover. Starts at $5/month.
- **[Neki]**: A next-generation Postgres sharding architecture (currently in private early access) designed for massive scale and fault tolerance on PostgreSQL workloads.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed; last known Series C was $50M (announced November 2021)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$105M** across 3 rounds; estimated annual revenue of **$4.5M** (per LinkedIn)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: SignalFire (Seed lead), Andreessen Horowitz (Series A & C lead), and other investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **57.6% YoY** (81 employees as of mid-2025), with operations in 14 countries. LinkedIn followers grew 36.6% in the last year. SOC 2 Type 2+ and HIPAA compliant; PCI DSS 4.0 Level 1 Service Provider.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding team = Vitess creators**: Built by the original creators and maintainers of Vitess (the CNCF project that scales YouTube, Slack, and GitHub), giving them unmatched expertise in distributed MySQL.
- **Performance leadership**: PlanetScale Metal is benchmarked as the fastest Postgres in the cloud, with unlimited IOPS on NVMe drives.
- **Superior developer experience**: Unique features like database branching (branch-per-environment), revertable schema changes with zero data loss, and "Database Traffic Control" for query budget management.
- **High reliability**: SLA of 99.999% for multi-region deployments and 99.99% for single-region deployments.
- **Cost advantage**: Positions itself as less expensive than Amazon RDS/Aurora for ~85% of migrated workloads.

## Strategic Focus
- **Postgres expansion**: Launching and scaling PlanetScale Postgres, including the Neki sharding architecture, to capture the growing Postgres market.
- **Horizontal scaling for Postgres**: Neki is a key differentiator — bringing Vitess-style sharding to PostgreSQL workloads.
- **Enterprise compliance**: Deepening SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS compliance to win larger enterprise deals.
- **Developer education**: Investing in developer relations and education to drive adoption (e.g., MCP server for AI agent access, extensive documentation).
- **Global infrastructure**: Expanding multi-region support and bring-your-own-cloud (PlanetScale Managed) options.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-forward culture**: Highly distributed team across the US and EMEA; many roles are listed as "Remote - US" or "Remote - EMEA."
- **World-class engineering team**: Founded by database experts with a combined 600+ years of experience scaling systems at companies like Google, Facebook, YouTube, Dropbox, and GitHub. "Experts leading experts" is a core value.
- **Values-driven culture**: Core values include "Every day matters," "We are fearless," "No passengers" (everyone drives the company forward), and "No replacement for displacement" (speed and performance matter).
- **High-impact work**: Employees work on solving some of the hardest problems in distributed systems and database infrastructure.
- **Compensation**: Public salary ranges (e.g., Software Engineer: ~$138k+/annual, Account Executive: ~$140k+/annual), indicating transparency.
- **Notable perks**: SOC 2/HIPAA/PCI compliant infrastructure; modern tech stack; work with Vitess, Postgres, and cloud-native technologies.
- **Hiring restrictions**: Cannot hire from sanctioned countries (North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Crimea) or Mainland China due to US regulations.

## Sources
1. [planetscale.com](https://planetscale.com/)
2. [planetscale.com/about](https://planetscale.com/about)
3. [planetscale.com/careers](https://planetscale.com/careers)
4. [planetscale.com/docs/what-is-planetscale](https://planetscale.com/docs/what-is-planetscale)
5. [linkedin.com/company/planetscale](https://www.linkedin.com/company/planetscale)

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