Developer Educator

PlanetScale
San Francisco
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 130,000 - 200,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 2+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Public speaking","Writing","Presentation","Time management","Relationship building"]

Educational role focused on creating technical content, speaking at conferences, and building the PlanetScale engineering community. You’ll translate complex database concepts (Postgres, MySQL, Vitess) into accessible content, refine docs, host webinars, and travel to events to engage with developers worldwide.

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PlanetScale
PlanetScale
1 year ago

Developer Educator

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Job Summary

Educational role focused on creating technical content, speaking at conferences, and building the PlanetScale engineering community. You’ll translate complex database concepts (Postgres, MySQL, Vitess) into accessible content, refine docs, host webinars, and travel to events to engage with developers worldwide.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Create technical content to help customers and engineers 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
  • •Travel between 20-50% of the time to connect with developers at events worldwide
Travel: High travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 130,000 - 200,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •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
Experience:2+ yearsDatabasesPostgreSQLMySQLVitessDistributed systemsDeveloper relationsEducation
Skills:CommunicationPublic speakingWritingPresentationTime managementRelationship building
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PostgreSQLMySQLVitessDistributed systemsSQL

Company Brief

PlanetScale
Provides a serverless, MySQL-compatible distributed database platform built on Vitess for developers and enterprises, enabling scalable, resilient, and cloud-native database operations with features like branching, zero-downtime schema changes, and multi-region deployment.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2018
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