Talent Community (m/f/d) at PRISMA (Leipzig, Germany)

PRISMA· Leipzig, Germany·4d ago

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Join Our Talent Community

What is the PRISMA Talent Community?

The PRISMA Talent Community is your way to stay connected with us—and our way to connect with the world. It brings together people from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Whether or not there is a current opening that fits your profile. By joining, you will:

Receive updates on PRISMA’s culture, events, and professional development insights;
Engage with our hiring team and explore potential career matches.

Curious about our story? Learn more here.

Who Should Join?

If you don’t see a current opening that fits your profile.
If you’re passionate about our culture and want to work with us in the future.
If you have experience in any of the following areas:
Software Development, Legal, Finance, Controlling & Risk, UX/UI Design, People & Culture, Information Security, Product Management, Customer Success, Business Development.

What’s Next?

Sign up for our Talent Community;
If your profile aligns with an opportunity, our hiring team will be in touch with more details;
Stay engaged with our culture, receiving insight and news about us (link to newsletter, socials).

We take care of your personal data. You can check our privacy policy here.

Why work at PRISMA

Flexible Remote Organization: A globally distributed team with the freedom to work from any location within UTC -5 to UTC +3 timezones. prisma.io
Generous Benefits: Includes stock options (10-year exercise period), a tech budget, 24 vacation days, 20 weeks paid parental leave, 4 mental health days, a 6-week paid sabbatical after three years, and 401K matching (US). prisma.io
Challenging Technical Problems: Work on the data access layer for modern applications, tackling the kind of infrastructure challenges found at large companies but with the agility of a startup. prisma.io
Strong Culture & Values: Guided by values of Transparency, Curiosity, Solidarity, and Accountability, with two company offsites per year and a dedicated People and Operations team. prisma.io
Positive Employer Rating: Rated 4.3/5.0 on LinkedIn (13 reviews), with high marks for Work-Life (4.0), Culture (3.8), and Compensation (4.0). linkedin.com

About PRISMA

Company Overview

One-liner: Prisma provides a data platform for TypeScript developers, offering an open-source ORM, managed Postgres, and a compute runtime to build, deploy, and scale data-driven applications.
Entity Type: Private (Series B)
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Founded: 2016
Founders: Not publicly available (the company was originally founded as Graphcool)

Core Business

Primary industry/industries: Software Development, Database Tools, Developer Infrastructure
Target customers: B2B, Developers (individuals and teams), Enterprises
Mission or purpose statement: "To make working with databases easy, with a great developer experience at the core of every product we build." prisma.io

Products & Services

Prisma ORM: An open-source, type-safe Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) for Node.js and TypeScript. It provides a schema-first workflow with a generated client, autocomplete, and compile-time guarantees. It is the most downloaded ORM in the Node.js ecosystem.
Prisma Postgres: A fully managed PostgreSQL database built on bare-metal and unikernels, offering instant scaling, low-latency performance, and deep integration with Prisma ORM and Prisma Studio.
Prisma Compute: A container-based runtime for deploying TypeScript apps as long-lived processes near the database. Designed for APIs and AI agents, it offers long-running requests and streaming with no serverless constraints.
Prisma Accelerate: A service that speeds up queries and ensures maximum performance at every scale.

Market Standing

Valuation/Market Cap: Not disclosed
Key Metric: Total Funding of USD 56.5 million across 4 rounds. linkedin.com
Annual Revenue: Estimated at USD 3.2 million. linkedin.com
Notable Investors/Partners: Altimeter Capital (led Series B), Amplify Partners (led Series A), Kleiner Perkins (led Seed Round). linkedin.com
Growth Signals: Trusted by more than 500k monthly active developers globally; headcount grew +14.2% year-over-year; operates in 25 countries. prisma.io, linkedin.com

Competitive Advantages

Open-Source Dominance: Prisma ORM is the most downloaded ORM in the Node.js ecosystem, creating a massive community and strong network effects.
Integrated Platform: Offers a unique, end-to-end platform (ORM + Postgres + Compute) that works together natively, simplifying the entire data access and deployment workflow for TypeScript developers.
Developer Experience Focus: Deep commitment to great DX, with type safety, autocomplete, and schema-first workflows that reduce bugs and speed up development.
Strong Community & FOSS Fund: Actively supports the open-source community through a monthly FOSS Fund, fostering goodwill and ecosystem growth. prisma.io

Strategic Focus

Platform Expansion: Moving beyond just an ORM to a full data platform (Postgres, Compute, Accelerate) to capture more of the developer workflow.
Agent Infrastructure: Targeting the growing market for AI agents and long-running APIs with Prisma Compute, positioning itself for the next wave of application development.
Global Talent Acquisition: Hiring remotely across UTC -5 to UTC +3 timezones to build a diverse, distributed team.

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