--- title: 'Video Editor at PlanetScale' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/video-editor-planetscale-united-states-0bjfb84ypqb9' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-07' --- # Video Editor at PlanetScale - **Company:** PlanetScale - **Location:** United States - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-19 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/planetscale/jobs/4458342009 ## Job description We're looking for a Video Editor who will help shape how videos get made at PlanetScale. You'll work with our team to edit and animate YouTube videos, social shorts, conference highlights, case studies, and launch films, with free rein to use any tool that makes them better, including ones that didn't exist six months ago. AI is reshaping the video editing space in similar ways to how it is transforming software broadly. We're looking for someone who embraces this new world of creating, combining this with your own personal craft to make excellent video content. We give you the room, the tools, and the time to both create and experiment. ## What we're looking for - A portfolio that shows strong editing across formats. YouTube, short form edits, podcasts, etc. - A sharp sense of pacing, structure, and story: you know what to keep, what to cut, and how to time things to maintain an engaged audience. - Equal comfort with editing, animation, and design: you can shape a story, incorporate interesting visuals, and set clean, expressive type that reads well on any screen. - Fluency in professional editing tools such as Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro. - Experience using AI tools to create animations, assist with editing, and the curiosity to push the limits of how these can be used in a video creation workflow. - Ability to create custom scripts and leverage AI to automate parts of your pipeline, such as transcription, thumbnail ideation, and generating rough edits of large amounts of footage. - Work closely with our team to help shape ideas before the edit starts, and iterate on feedback quickly. ## What you'll edit - YouTube videos, from explainers to interviews, paced to hold attention start to finish. - Shorts and vertical clips for social platforms. - Conference talks, full-talks from our events and clips to share on socials. - Launch videos, where timing, polish, and pacing carry the announcement. - Thumbnails, title cards, typography, and motion graphics that go with all of the above. ## How you'll work - A combination of strong individual editing skills combined with an excitement for how AI can improve the speed and quality at which we create. - In close collaboration with the Marketing team at PlanetScale. - You'll have time and budget to try new tools. Bonus points - Background in Software Development, or working with Engineering companies - Experience editing tech / developer content - A channel or account you've grown yourself - Experience with code-driven video tools like Remotion - A knack for creating engaging thumbnails and titles - Sound design and audio mixing skills - Experience shooting or directing your own footage - Livestream or live event production experience ## Why PlanetScale 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. Base salary range: $150,000 - $200,000 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. ## 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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