--- title: 'Developer Educator at PlanetScale' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/developer-educator-planetscale-san-francisco-k6cdbr77v42h' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Developer Educator at PlanetScale - **Company:** PlanetScale - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2025-09-09 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4021848009 ## 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 scales. We also take DX seriously. Our platform enables developers with deep performance insights, AI integration, powerful cluster management, and schema migration tooling. Our customers trust us with what is often their most precious digital asset: their data. The stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Developer Educator who is excited about bringing database education to new heights, creating unique and engaging content, helping customers, and building the PlanetScale engineering community at conferences, events, and online. The job - Create technical content to help customers and engineers at-large learn how Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, Neki, and the PlanetScale ecosystem works - Speak at conferences and events, representing PlanetScale in the database and engineering community - Create and refine product documentation - Host livestreams and webinars to engage with and educate our community - Your role may contain between 20-50% travel to connect with developers at events worldwide The ideal candidate - Teaches complex technical concepts in accessible ways - Loves learning about and explaining full-stack application development, databases, and compute infrastructure - Is a natural communicator who can adapt your message for different audiences - Thrives in community settings and enjoy building relationships with developers - Has excellent writing skills and can produce content that engineers actually want to read - Is self-motivated and can manage multiple projects independently - Enjoys experimenting with new ideas to further the education and marketing mission on PlanetScale ## What you will need - 2+ years of experience in engineering, solution architecture, technical education, or developer relations - Strong understanding of relational databases (Postgres or MySQL) - Proven ability to create technical content (samples of blog posts, tutorials, documentation, or speaking engagements) - Experience speaking at conferences or hosting technical presentations and events - Willingness to travel between 20-50% of the time What else will help you be successful - Experience with Vitess or other distributed database technologies - Knowledge of distributed systems and database scaling challenges - Previous experience at a database or infrastructure company ## Why PlanetScale We're redefining how high-growth companies manage data at scale. We work with some of the most exciting brands in gaming, consumer tech, and B2B SaaS. As a Developer Educator, you'll be at the core of educating our customers to effectively use the platform that powers world-class apps used by hundreds of millions of users worldwide. PlanetScale’s hiring philosophy is centered around building small teams of p99 individuals. At PlanetScale we believe in supporting people to do their best work. We strive to build an environment where people feel that they are respected and valued, whether they are a candidate or an employee. 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: $130,000 - $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. 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