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🕒 October 29, 2025

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PlanetScale

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51 - 200 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $50M Series C on 2021-11

SaaS • Enterprise

PlanetScale is a leading cloud database platform known for its scalability and reliability, specifically as an OLTP database that allows MySQL databases to scale horizontally. Leveraging Vitess, an open-source project developed at YouTube, PlanetScale powers Tier 0 databases with scalable, distributed data management solutions trusted by major global brands like GitHub, Slack, and HubSpot. The platform offers deployment options across multi-tenant and single-tenant clouds, providing every user with robust performance backed by automatic sharding, query routing, and compliance with high security standards (such as SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA). PlanetScale is tailored for enterprises requiring reliable, efficient, and high-performing database solutions at scale, with extensive support and integration capabilities.

📋 Description

• Partner with Sales and Customer Engineering throughout the pre-sales and post-sales journey as the technical expert helping customers solve their most challenging database problems. • Lead technical discovery to match customers’ business and technical objectives with PlanetScale’s offerings. • Design and execute proof of value timelines that deliver on agreed upon business outcomes and success criteria. • Design database migration strategies and work hands-on with customers to execute migrations to PlanetScale's PostgreSQL and Vitess platforms. • Assess workloads, analyze performance requirements, and recommend architecture, sizing, and optimization strategies. • Build tools, scripts, and automation that accelerate migrations and improve customer onboarding. • Create educational content including documentation, guides, blog posts, workshops, and videos. • Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to advocate for customer needs and shape the platform.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL in production, including operations, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. • OR 5+ years of experience supporting customers with MySQL or PostgreSQL workloads where you advised on operations, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. • Experience working with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI). • Proven success in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or Technical Account Manager. • Strong understanding of database migration strategies and tooling. • Experience evaluating database solutions including architecture reviews, capacity planning, and performance analysis. • Ability to write scripts and tools in Python, Go, or JavaScript. • Experience creating technical content such as documentation, tutorials, or blog posts.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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.